The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Victor C. Comras Not for the General Reader, VERY Focused on Bureaucracy December 1, 2010 The price is excellent. You cannot get a better deal than $20 for a book of this substance. HOWEVER, this is not a book for the general reader. It would be excellent as a paperback for a senior or graduate …
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Journal: The Security and Secrecy “Tax” – Global Guerrillas By John Robb at Global Guerrillas (Networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures) Wikileaks and Al Qaeda’s Open Source Jihad are both open source insurgencies. While there are obvious differences between the two, what’s more interesting …
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Thom Hartmann Short Smart List, Not a Roadmap or Game Plan November 28, 2010 I almost did not buy this book because I know all this stuff already, but out of respect for the author, who is one of a number of individuals including Jim Fallows, William Greider, Matt Miller, Margaret Wheatley, and Tom Atlee …
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Nelly Lahoud Superb Content Destroyed by Outrageous Price November 22, 2010 I was about to buy this book for its analytics (the jihaddists are not self-destructing, they are morphing) when I saw the price. This is another example of outrageous pricing that destroys the dissemination possibilities of knowledge. The author would be better off using …
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Tomdispatch.com is for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of our post-9/11 world and a clear sense of how our imperial globe actually works. The site’s founder and editor Tom Engelhardt. Chalmers Johnson is among the contributors. Here is a link to an older but still relevant entry by the author of Blowback, Sorrows of Empire, …
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USG Blows It, Makes This a Best-Seller October 5, 2010 Anthony Shaffer EDIT of 7 October 2010 to address the negatives. I can see I need to spell this out more clearly. 1) Let’s distinguish between the book and the heavy-handed (late) censorsorship. The book is an earnest personal effort by an experienced officer who …
Great Content, Rotten Pricing, Free Options Online October 2, 2010 Antulio Joseph Echevarria I have known the author for many years, and my own work, monographs for the Strategic Studies Institute where he has been the Director of Research, benefited considerably from his mature and measured editing. His most helpful work for me is his …
