Marcus Aurelius: Private Manning Public Context

Article  below, based on views of three or so retired senior military officers, two of them former Service TJAGs, takes an unfortunate tack on Manning’s treachery.  Their contention is that command and systemic failures set conditions for Manning to compromise documents.  They assert that since he was  “juniorest guy in the office,” everybody but him …

Marcus Aurelius: Hackers to Attack Feds Over Manning?

Feds involved in Manning prosecution enter hackers’ crosshairs By Aliya Sternstein NextGov, 12/20/2011 A government-hired forensics specialist and an Army investigating officer could face online backlash from WikiLeaks supporters who are unhappy with this week’s prosecution of a U.S. soldier accused of releasing confidential government files to the anti-secrets website, a computer engineer affiliated with …

Reform Coalition: “True Cost” Economics & Genuine Progress + True Cost RECAP

Definition of ‘True Cost Economics’ An economic model that seeks to include the cost of negative externalities into the pricing of goods and services. Supporters of this type of economic system feel products and activities that direct or indirectly cause harmful consequences to living beings and/or the environment should be accordingly taxed to reflect the somewhat hidden costs.

Bojan Radej: Movement 99%, Self-Organizing Complex Bodies

“Movement 99%: Through Exclusion to the Community” Slovenian Evaluation Society, Working paper 4/4(Nov. 2011), Bojan Radej “Understanding and Self-Management of the Complex Society” Slovenian Evaluation Society, Working paper 2/4(2011), 30 pp. Bojan Radej is a methodologist in social research from Ljubljana. Master degree in macroeconomics, University of Ljubljana – Faculty of Economics (1993). Professional Experience …