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Another Nail in the Coffin of Power without Principle, May 29, 2009

David Ray Griffin

“This book is part of a growing body of non-fiction that illuminates the cataclysmic gap between those with power, who do as they please, and those with knowledge, who are not heard. At least 80% of what is done `in our name' with our tax dollars is wasteful, lacks intellectual integrity, and does great harm to humanity both at home and abroad. Unless President Obama breaks out of the closed circle of power to connect with the kind of independent knowledge found in this book, he will remain a captive `front' for the Empire Enterprise.”

Above is the jacket blurb I provided after reading the galley copy, and it disappoints me that the publisher has not done a better job of sharing information with prospective buyers using all the tools that Amazon provides.

935 lies, 25 high crimes and misdemeanors, all documented, all led by Dick Cheney, the most nakedly amoral man–and the most powerful–ever to dominate a White House, a Congress, and the abuse of all that could be done “in our name.”

When combined with the massive cover-up of 9-11, a pre-planned cover-up that included nine nations warning us in advance, Dick Cheney scheduling a nation-wide exercise that put him personally “in control” of the entire US Government and the US military specifically (wisely putting his command center on the piers in NYC as he knew in advance that the city's command center in WTC would not be usable), with Rudy Guliani all ready with pre-ordered trucks to “scoop and dump” the crime scene to the point that firefighters rioted–the mind just spins at the separation of the public from its government, of the political arm of government from reality, and of both the political and professional arms of government from ethics.

I will list just six other titles here, one each on 9-11, the Kennedy assassination, and the King assassination, and three that I have sponsored, the latter three free online but also here at Amazon in hard-copy.

9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition
An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, New and Updated Edition
Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History

Election 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (Substance of Governance; Legitimate Grievances; Candidates on the Issues; Balanced Budget 101; Call to Arms: Fund We Not Them; Annotated Bibliography)
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political–Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, & Corruption

A people who mean to govern themselves must arms themselves with information. A Republic if you can keep it. A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry. Madison, Franklin, and Jefferson, all turning in their graves over Dick Cheeny and the two-party crime system we allow.

Adding four more titles:
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win It Back

2009/07/032009/12/04

Review: Harvest Of Rage–Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning

5 Star, Democracy, Impeachment & Treason, Insurgency & Revolution

Explains Violence and Anger in Rural West,June 5, 2009

Joel Dyer

I have spent my life in government (30 years) and studying the causes of revolution and instability, and I would sum up the core insight as this: violent anger is spawned by unfairness and feelings of helplessness combined with a loss of faith in “authority” or existing mechanisms for conflict resolution.

This book joins a growing body of literature that I have been exploring that suggests that America is losing its mind as a nation, is fragmenting in multiple ways including states planning for secession, divides between rural and urban, increased ethnic violence especially among poor whites, and so on. There is also a growing literature on government ineptness if not actual mafeasance and betrayal of the public trust.

In terms of details, this book is persuasive in documenting either a federal cover-up or massive federal incompetence. The suspects not interviewed, the suspects blocked from testifying, it all adds up to the federal government having a story line that is not supported by the facts.

I just finished watching Gandhi for the 20th or so time as background to writing an article on Human Intelligence (HUMINT), and I fear for America. We have dumbed down the population and betrayed multiple demographic elements of the population is ways that will have consequences. The Obama Borg Administration being almost identical to the Bush-Cheney Borg Administration is certain to make the situation worse.

Other books I recommend:
Rage of the Random Actor: Disarming Catastrophic Acts And Restoring Lives
Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History
An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, New and Updated Edition
9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy)
Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids

2009/07/032009/12/04

Review: Liberty and Tyranny–A Conservative Manifesto

5 Star, Democracy

Articulate, Intelligent, Relevant, June 5, 2009

Mark R. Levin

This is a fast read being double-spaced, but it has good endnotes and a logical structure with amply documented points.

A call to arms, the book ends with ten elements of a conservative manifesto, and I will list them here:

01 Taxation
02 Environment
03 Judges
04 The Administrative State
05 Government Education
06 Immigration
07 Entitlements
08 Foreign Policy and Security
09 Faith
10 The Constitution

Here are some of my notes, but I will not summarize this book, it deserves to be read in its entirety. It joins a robust literature that is emerging in which both fiscal conservatives and social liberals are beginning to realize that since at least Jimmy Carter, the two political parties have been fielding “fronts” for what I call the Borg–the Wall Street driven two-party monopoly that has betrayed the public trust for decades now.

+ Principles matter, the Constitution matters.

+ The conventional wisdom of the elites, both in the universities and the political parties, is not as good as the common sense of the people. He cited William Buckley in saying that the first 2000 people in the Boston phone book are a better bet than the 2000 academics at Harvard.

+ Federalism has created an Administrative State that not only costs the taxpayer billions of dollars, but that imposes additional costs at the local level and has become a fourth branch of government.

+ He spends time defining and discussing the “Statist” as the enemy of the individual, equates the Statist and Secularist to the one world order crowd (the trilateralists,but I do not recall seeing that exact term in the book), the crowd that wishes to subordinate US citizens to a concept of global citizenship.

+ He is very hard on Cass Sunstein, one of two really well known public advocacy lawyers (the other being Lawrence Lessig), and discusses Sunstein in the context of Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights which sought to create a permanent welfare state.

+ He spends multiple pages on four events that began under the Clinton Administration and led to the economic meltdown, but his overview is facile and leaves out much of what TIME Magazine provided in its “25 People to Blame” story and he appears to very deliberately ignore the fact that Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) is the government culprit of note, accepting 200 pages from lobbyists for insertion into a bill five minutes before the vote, while also ignoring the fact that it is the consistent lack of integrity on the Hill that has destroyed this country and allowed executive and judicial manfeasance to run amok.

+ I totally agree with his interpretation of the Fourth Amendment and believe that citizenship should not be granted to babies delivered on US soil to visiting foreigners or to illegal aliens.

+ His emphasis on the importance of the consent of the governed to the very expensive liberalization of immigration as well as welfare is valuable and with his legal background, I now consider his one of the voices that must be at the table as we navigate our way into a future that bodes ill for individual rights.

+ The chapter on the environment is one of the longest, and provides an excellent overview of conservative concerns while also doing some fact checking and fallacy exposing that is both fun and educational. As I write this, a story is breaking in which the global warming crowd is taking a big hit from NASA as proof that it is the sun's cycles, not just our own behavior, that is the primary cause of global warming this time around.

+ The author writes about Social Security as a regressive tax that is also a piggy bank for unchecked federal spending and not being managed as it should be for the future.

+ I find his comments on how Republican Hoover set up Roosevelt, and how Republican Bush set up Obama, most interesting. I've come to the conclusion that the two existing parties have both sold out to Wall Street and betrayed the public trust, and the time has come to flush Congress down the toilet and start over with Independents (real ones, not neo-cons like Lieberman that change parties for convenience).

+ He writes of the importance of faith as a balancing factor on science, I agree, this is true regardless of one's ideological persuasion, and all the more so if one can eschew partisan blinders.

Other books that I recommend, with the general observation that the federal government has now become ignorant, and that decisions are being made on the basis of ideologically-defined and financially-motivated views, not on the basis of real facts openly aired:

Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
The Bush Tragedy
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Obama: The Postmodern Coup – Making of a Manchurian Candidate
The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
The Republican War on Science
The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right

I have posted an annotated bibliography of over 500 non-fiction books at oss.net/PIG (add the www), all leading back to Amazon, and hope that readers of this book will explore more broadly. The US Government is disconnected from reality, and the taxpayer dollar is disconnected from the public interest. It's time we put We the People back into government and I do not see that happening under the current Borg Administration — the Sequel.

2009/07/032012/12/03

Review: Open Veins of Latin America–Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

5 Star, America (Anti-America), Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback

Brilliantly Translated, Poetry of Pathos, Compelling, June 5, 2009

Eduardo Galeano

Kudos to Hugo Chavez for putting this book in the eye of the emerging consciousness of the US public–Obama will not read this book because he already knows the story, he is the front end of the Borg–the system, and so similar in policies to Bush as to possibly wake up the naive.

The book begins with one of the finest Forewords I have ever read, by Isabel Allende, and I offer just one quote from her spectacular introduction of the book:

“His work is a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling.”

The translation by Bobbye Ortiz merits special note. This book sings in English, and the translator has done justice to the original.

A major recurring theme throughout the book is that of capital squandered by the few while the many actually producing the capital dies of hunger or disease.

I list ten other recommended books at the end of this review. Early on the author makes these points:

1. The indigenous bourgeoisie are the ones who have sold out their countries to the multinational corporations. Toward the end of the book re repeats this with a chapter on the guards that opened the gates.

2. “The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret–every year, [the equivalent of] three Hiroshima bombs.”

3. Quoting Lyndon Johnson: $5 invested in population control is equal to $100 in economic growth. This in the context of the author making the case that Latin America is under-populated in relation to Europe.

4. Imperialism and what I call predatory capitalism depends on, imposed, inequality and growing disparity on the countries rich in raw materials.

His early account of the European invasion by steel and horse and disease was unique in its time; see 1491 below for a broader more recent treatment. The indigenous population by this account dropped from 70 million to 3.5 million.

Among my notes:

1. The historical record is lie–laws were indeed passed protecting the indigenous natives, but never enforced, something history does not document as well.

2. “Ideological justifications were never in short supply.”

3. Spanish dressed up the natives in Andalucian costumes, some of the clothing we think of today as traditional was actually imposed on the natives.

4. Spanish and others moved drugs (coca) from strictly ceremonial use to the general population and then into massive export.

The history of Latin America is a history of sequential pillaging. First gold, then sugar, then rubber followed by chocolate, cotton, and coffee, then the banana–the tree of hell under United Fruit. And then Chilean nitrates, Bolivian tin, and finally the “black curse” of petroleum.

Sugar in particularly devoured both the soil and humanity, first in Brazil then in the Caribbean.

The ready use of slavery, both of indigenous natives and of imported Africans, created the economic bottleneck that survives to this day, where those actually extracting the raw materials are virtual slaves and do not derive the fruits of their labor.

The author contrasts the manner in which the US used the Homestead Act to grant land to individuals who were incentivized to develop the West, and the latifundo oligarchy that imposes perpetual poverty on generations of indigenous individual families.

Myself being a survivor of the Central American wars, and the duty officer the night land reformer Mark Pearlman was executed in El Salvador by an extreme right death squad, I read with interest about the recurring attempts to achieve agrarian reform, only to have push-back from the 14-500 families that “own” the land.

I am fascinated by the corporate war between Shell (Paraguay) and Standard Oil (Bolivia) in which the armies of those countries, and the poor of those countries, were the pawns in the “great game” of wealth confiscation.

The book is a catalog of all the dictators supported by the USA and enriched by US and European multinational corporations.

The second half of the book yields the following notes:

1. Industrial infanticide has been imposed on Latin America by protectionism and free trade (as opposed to fair trade)

2. Loans and railroads (with attendant land rights and obligations) deformed Latin America.

3. The International Monetary Fund (IMB) is the knife that slits the belly of each country to let in the maggots of immoral capitalism.

4. The Ministries of Labor in each Latin American country are the new slave traders.

5. “International charity does not exist.” The role of US aid is to help the US domestically. As of the book being written, only 38% of aid was actually targeted aid, all the rest existed to bring greater benefits back to the “giving” country.

6. What Latin America has been lacking all this time is a sense of economic community within its own continent.

7. The book was banned in Chile and Uruguay.

I end this summative review with two quotes–cliff notes for the President, if he has anyone active on Amazon:

Page 261. The task lies in the hands of the dispossessed, the humiliated, the accursed. The Latin Ameerican cause is above all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change.

Page 285. “The system would like to be confused with the country.” and “In these lands we are not experiencing the primitive infancy of capitalism buts its vicious senility.”

Notes and index complete the work. A solid four hour read without interruptions. A great book for anyone desiring to know why the USA is being pushed back while China and Iran are displacing the West in the southern hemisphere.

Other books I recommend (you have to look for my summary reviews now, Amazon buries serious reviews with a few negative votes).
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Has Shaped Our World
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project)
The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win It Back
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy

2009/07/032009/12/04

Review: Entrepreneur Journeys Volume 1

5 Star, Capitalism (Good & Bad)

Helpful Panorama, Many Nuggets, June 6, 2009

Sramana Mitra

I generally throw unsolicited books right into the post office's paper waste bin (hint to publishers: ASK first), but this one was close enough to my interests and offers a favorable first impression, so I held on to it and finally read it today.

It is a series of vignettes, one third context, one third financing, and one third nuggets, and for the nuggets alone (many summarized below) it is assuredly worthy of purchase and reflection.

As a long-time fan of Peter Drucker's, and especially his focus on work as a calling and capitalism as doing well financially by doing good for the customer, I have an early note, “in the Drucker tradition.” That is *very* high praise.

My flyleaf notes:

+ In author's words that resonate with me, “captures tribal knowledge.”

+ Bootstrapping avoids VC micro-management and allows patience

+ Ego objections from earlier generations of engineers are common.

+ Chinese push hundreds of PhD students into any strategic technology area of interest to the government, fiber optics was one

+ Self-manufacture protects intellectual property

+ Malaysia costs for clean rooms, skilled labor, etc one tenth of costs in Silicon Valley or California generally

+ “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” I loved this. I am both a strategists and a cultural creative, and it drives me bonkers to see our government so stupid on both fronts (and most corporations as well)

+ Bright kids without degrees can be rapidly trained to do specified engineering tasks at much lower costs with much higher consistency than college and advanced degree graduates.

+ In examining a company, compare marketing versus engineering investment (dollars, number of people) for a read on the core values

+ Web 3.0 is here now, leveraging bots in context to tailor delivery

+ Google does have vulnerabilities and vertical search is one of them.

+ Old media (e.g. Washington Post) not leveraging Internet and not leveraging their legacy human networks.

+ Enterprise computing has been displaced by extended enterprise and cloud computing. Microsoft Office in a virtual nosedive (finally!)

+ Security and distributed collaborative networks are totally entwined (or should be).

+ Sucking chest wound for progress right now, world-wide and especially in Third World, is absence of ubiquitous broadband access.

+ Latin America is ready to become the next India (especially Brazil, Argentina, Chile).

+ Planet-scale solutions are emerging–am blown away by Energy Recovery PX that has dropped cost of desalinating a cubic meter of water from $10 to $0.46.

+ Being there personally (Malaysia, India, wherever) is vastly superior to remote contact via telephone, video, etcetera.

+ New stuff such as solar lighting can leverage existing rural area capabilities such as electricians servicing the small middle class, who can extend solar lighting units into the lower class households.

+ HUGE HUGE HUGE: Obopay and a calling card rather than the cell phone may be the next big leap for the five billion poor. Although I still believe in free low-cost cell phones as the national bootstrap method, this one hit me with the force of a 2 x 4 wood stud wielded by a seriously pissed-off gorilla.

+ Every company in here is interesting, but Indded.com, SimplyHired, HotChalk, MercadoLibre, and PX as well as Obopay were for me truly worthy introductions.

On a personal note, the financial crash cost me the sale of my for-profit as well as my flagship contract, and SimplyHired in one hour was better for me in job hunting than all the other sites including LinkedIn. Still seeking global-impact employment, personal details at OSS.Net, non-profit details at Earth Intelligence Network.

This is one of those rare books that inspire me to suggest to Amazon that a future alert feature is needed, I am interested in anything this author puts together in the future.

I will end with some other books I recommend (I have summary reviews for all of them, but Amazon buries my reviews now because of the 20% negatives that come with controversial non-fiction books–you have to select me as an “Interesting Person” first, then my reviews “pop up”. See the comment for a URL to an annotated bibliography with direct links to my reviews of over 500 non-fiction books pertinent to our shared future.

One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
Conscious Evolution: Awakening Our Social Potential
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

2009/07/032009/12/04

Review: Anthropologists in the Public Sphere–Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power

5 Star, Information Operations, Insurgency & Revolution, Intelligence (Public), Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Public Administration, War & Face of Battle

Publisher Lazy, Content Shines, June 6, 2009

Roberto J. Gonzalez

It infuriates me to run across mediocre publishers who refuse to use the simple tools that Amazon provides for loading a proper description of the book, providing the table of contents, or even offering “look inside the book” where an index can sell a book faster than the table of contents.

Minus one star for a rotten lazy publisher. Here is the table of contents. Buy the book, along with Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War this is fundamental reading that calls into question both the sanity of how we engage with foreign publics, and the incompetence combined with mendaciousness with which we seek to abuse the profession of anthropology for wrong ways and wrong ends.

The highest praise I can give to this book is that it forced me to think and it inspired new work–my forthcoming article on Human Intelligence: All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (see comment for URL) was directly inspired by this book and the huge mess the U.S. Army is making of the Human Terrain Teams (HTT), code for abused pretend anthropologists without a clue. I have the fly-leaf note: our HUMINT is at war with itself.

The kindest thing I can do for the brilliantly selected and organized contributors to this volume is respect their work by providing the table of contents, which has reminded me better than my own notes of how diverse and valuable this collection is.

Part I: War, Peace, and Social Responsibility
01 Franz Boas, “Scientists as Spies” (1919)
02 Margaret Mead, “Warfare is Only an Invention–Not a Biological Necessity” (1940)
03 Marshall Sahlins, “Once You've Broken Him Down…” (1965)
04 Gerald Berreman, “Contemporary Anthropology and Moral Accountability” (1973)
05 Laura Nader, “Two Plus Two Equals Zero–War and Peace Reconsidered”
06 Beatriz Manz, “Dollars that Forge the Guatemalan Chains”
07 David Price, “Anthropologists as Spies” (2000)
08 Pierre Bourdieu, “Abuse of Power by the Advocates of Reason” (1998)

Part II: Prescient Anthropology: Diagnosing Crises Abroad
09 Robert Hayden, “West Must Correct Its Mistakes in Yugoslavia” (1992)
10 Robert Hayden, “NATO Fuels the Balkan Fire” (1999)
11 Anna Simons, “No Exit From Somalia” (1991)
12 Anna Simons, “Our Abysmal Ignorance About Somalia” (1992)
13 Anna Simons, “The Somalia Trap” (1993)
14 Winifred Tate, “Increased Military Aid to Colombia Won't Curb Drug Trafficking” (1999)
15 Winifred Tate, “Colombia” Rules of the Game”, 2001
16 Lesley Gill, “Unveiling US Policy in Colombia” (2002)
17 Marc Edelman, “The Price of Free Trade: Famine” (2002)
18 Ali Qleibo, “How Two Truths Make One Tragedy” (2000)
19 Jeff Halper, “The Matrix of Control” (2201)
20 Jeff Halper, “After the Invasion: Now What” (2002)
21 Hugh Gusterson, “If U.S. Dumps Test Ban Treaty, China Will Rejoice” (2001)

Part III: Prelude to September 11
22 Ashraf Ghani, “Cut Off the Arms Flow and Let Afghans Unite” (1989)
23 James Merryman, “US Can Strengthen African Ties in Wake of Terrorism with Aid, Clear Policies” (1998)
24 Robert Fernea, “Egyptians Don't Like Saddam, But….” (1991)
25 Barbara Nimri Aziz, “Gravesites–Environmental Ruin in Iraq” (1997)
26 Fadwa El Guindo, “UN Should Act to Protect Muslim Women” (1998)
27 Zieba Shorish-Shamley, Interviewed, “Women Under the Taliban” (2001)
28 William Beeman, “Follow the Oil Trail–Mess in Afghanistan Partly Our Government's Fault” (1998)

Part IV: Anthropological Interpretations of September 11
29 Catherine Lutz, “Our Legacy of War” (2001)
30 David Harvey etal, “Local Horror, Global Response” (2001)
31 William Beeman, “A War Our Great-Grandchildren Will Be Fighting–Understanding Osama Bin Laden” (2001)
32 Janet McIntosh, “What Have 9/11 Investigators Overlooked?” (2002)

Part V: On Afghanistan, Central Aisa, and the Middle East
34 Robert Canfield, “Nation is Home to Afghans, Mujahedeen, Taliban, Afghan-Atabs, to Name a Few” (2001)
35 Ashraf Ghani, “The Follow of Quick Action in Afghanistan” (2001)
36 Nazif Sharrani, “Afghanistan Can Learn From Its Past” (2001)
37 Zieba Shorish-Shamley Interviewed, “Women in the New Afghanistan” (2001)
38 David Edwards and Shahmahmood Miakhel, “Enlisting Afghan Aid” (2001)
39 Kamran Asdar Ali, “Pakistan's Dilemma” (2001)
40 Francesca Mereu etal, “War Destroyed Chechnya's Clan Structure” (2002)

Part VI: Examining Militarism and the “War on Terror”
41 William Beeman, “U.S. Anti-Terrorist Message Won't Fly in Islamic World” (2001)
42 David Price, “Terror and Indigenous Peoples–War without End”
43 John Burdick, “Afghan War Could be Recruiting Tools for Terrorists” (2001)
44 Dale Eickelman, “First Know the Enemy, Then Act” (2001)
45 John Burdick, “Sept 11 Exposes Futile Search for `Perfect' Missile Defense” (2001)
46 Roberto Gonzalez, “Ignorance Is Not Bliss,” (2202)
47 Mahmood Mamdani, “Turn Off Your Tunnel Vision” (2002)
48 Thomas McKenna Interviewed, “The Roots of Muslim Separatism in the Philippines” (2002)

Part VII Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties
49 Roberto Gonzalez, “Lynn Cheney-Joe Lieberman Group Puts Out a Blacklist” (2001)
50 David Price, “Academia under Attack: Sketches for a New Blacklist” (2001)
51 Hugh Gusterson, Interviewed, “Lynn Cheney's Free Speech Blacklist” (2002)
52 Laura Nader, Harmony Coerced Is Freedom Denied” (2001)

Epilogue: Unconventional Anthropology: Challenging the Myths of Continuous War

I was pleased to see several CounterPunch contributions. I respectfully encourage Amazon readers to seek out my CounterPunch short piece on “Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else.” Obama is a front for the Borg, he is not getting proper decision-support, and neither is any other element of the government. We need to get back into being the sovereign people.

In addition to the book cited above, I recommend:
War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win It Back
None So Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam
Who the Hell Are We Fighting?: The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars
The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Has Shaped Our World
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

2009/07/032009/12/04

Review:DVD: Behind Every Terrorist There Is a Bush

5 Star, Impeachment & Treason, Reviews (DVD Only)

Superior Intellect, Comedy, Probing, Provocative, Fun, June 6, 2009

Ken Jenkins

This DVD costs $20 at PeaceProject.com, and less if you buy more copies, which I recommend. This is a superior fun consciousness raising device and a wonderful gift. It can also be used to provoke the mentally challenged.

I received my copy from Carol Brouillet when we were together at an event, and watched it this morning. It is a mix of comedy, poetry, and serious presentations, e.g. by Webster Tarpley, Ian Woods, and others, the latter presenting 27 9/11 anomalies, this bit ALONE is worth the price of the DVD.

I cannot emphasize too greatly the importance and seriousness of this DVD. Everyone associated with it is intelligent, non-violent, and attentive. This is a call to arms–pots and pans and voices, not guns–throughout this DVD, the truth is recognized as the moral force that it is.

PLEASE buy this DVD and share it with others. Taking responsibility for what we have allowed to be done “in our name” and with our complicit silence in the streets is the only way we can partially overcome the shame, the dishonor, of letting a nakedly amoral vice president and a village idiot lead the world to trillion dollar chaos.

For those attracted to this line of inquiry, I have created an annotated bibliography with hot links to over 500 non-fictions books and some DVDs that more or less are a citizen's primer on what is wrong with our out of control federal government, and what need to know to fix it. See the comment for the URL.

Category: 5 Star

Review: Osama Bin Laden–Dead or Alive?

Review: Harvest Of Rage–Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning

Review: Liberty and Tyranny–A Conservative Manifesto

Review: Open Veins of Latin America–Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Review: Entrepreneur Journeys Volume 1

Review: Anthropologists in the Public Sphere–Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power

Review:DVD: Behind Every Terrorist There Is a Bush