Event: 24-26 September 2010 in Louiseville, Kentucky Coffee Party First Convention and Constitutional Convention moderated by Lawrence Lessig

TUE 21 Sep NEW:  Detailed Schedule, Pretty Amazing, Click Here to Read Meet us in Louisville for the Great American Democracy Meetup and Coffee Party National Convention! We want to reset the national dialogue so that we can address the challenges that we face as fellow Americans instead of partisans in a spectator sport. We …

Journal: LEXIS-NEXIS OSINT Kiss to CIA/OSC

  More Than Espionage: Open-source intelligence should be part of solution   Washington Times   January 27, 2010    Pg. B3 By Andrew M. Borene Here’s some food for thought: White House policymakers and Congress can help develop an increasingly robust national intelligence capacity by investing new money in the pursuit of a centralized open-source intelligence (OSINT) …

Review: SAVAGE CAPITALISM AND THE MYTH OF DEMOCRACY–Latin America in the Third Millennium

Fast Read, Ground Truth, Moral Truth, Priceless Insights January 5, 2010 Michael Hogan I received this book as a gift from the author after I reviewed Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, and I am very glad to have accepted his offer. At 218 pages double-spaced it is …

Journal: Wall Street & the Obama Administration

Chuck Spinney sends…. Obama’s Big Sellout The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway MATT TAIBBI Rolling Stone Dec 09, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: We include the entire article below to share Chuck Spinney’s value-added highlights.  See the original article without highlights by …

AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 02 Nov 09

Hot Topics CD: Protest in DRC over insecurity 11/01/09 CF:  Children bearing brunt of Central African Republic’s troubles, says UNICEF offic 10/21/09 DZ: Algeria: Al-Qaeda failing to attract recruits govt claims 10/30/09 ET: Can Ethiopia’s Electoral Code Guarantee Fair Elections? 11/01/09 ET: Ethiopia: 3 soldiers defect to Eritrea 10/31/09 GM: Former military police commander calls …