The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the race to cool the planet Critics fear that manipulating weather patterns could have a calamitous effect on poorer countries John Vidal The Observer, Sunday 10 July 2011 Phi Beta Iota: This really excellent article is highly recommended along with a look at the only book in English out just …
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For blacks, a rift over Obama Two Princeton scholars clash over the president’s record, but the real divide is between assimilation and racial unity. By Erin Aubry KaplanLos Angeles Times, June 19, 2011 It was the kind of insular, issue-driven, black-on-black debate that ordinarily doesn’t attract the media spotlight, even on the slowest news day. …
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The Narrative Battle & Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century By John Marke Warfare in the 21st century is about the battle for the mind – it is about ideas and perceptions. Understanding how people make sense of what’s happening around them, i.e., socially constructed reality is a key element of this dynamic. Military strategists, at …
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Charles Hill Beyond 5 Stars–Can Frustrate, But Righteously Broad, June 9, 2011 I am sympathetic to those who are critical of the author, as I myself was frustrated at many points and also I confess feeling very ignorant about many of the literary works that were mentioned. However, and despite a rotten index and the …
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Insights into the Taliban….not available from US intelligence…. BOOK REVIEW TALIBAN: The Unknown Enemy By James Fergusson Da Capo, 432 pp., $27.50 By Chuck Leddy – Boston Globe Correspondent / June 1, 2011 Journalist James Fergusson has spent more than a decade covering the Taliban, from its beginnings in the 1990s as a militant Islamist …
31 May 2011: BBC Link corrected. Dear friends, The personal is political. This is true in so many ways. I am part of my culture and social systems, and they are part of me, embedded in me. They shape how I think and act, how I respond, what I think is right and possible — …
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