The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Righteous New Knowledge, Rock Solid Achievement February 20, 2010 Matthew Hindman I read in threes and fours, this book is part of the set that includes SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa and Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful. This book educated me. It challenged and soundly …
NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: How Hugo Chavez’s revolution crumbled 01/24/10 AA: Time to Stop Ignoring Chávez 01/25/10 AR: Argentina’s Redrado Denies Threat To Reveal Dollar Lists-Lawyer 01/26/10 BO: Violence and democracy in Bolivia 01/26/10 BR: Brazil starts beefing …
Pentagon’s Gitmo Recidivism Claims Don’t Add Up Researchers at Seton Hall and New America Foundation track the Pentagon’s claims that released Guantanamo detainees ‘returned to battle.’ Phi Beta Iota: Government claims 1 in 5 and counts those who speak to the press against USG and Guantanamo. Researcers find 1 in 25 at best and observe …
Phi Beta Iota: What all of these headlines have in common is the failure of Epoch A “leadership” or what Peggy Noonan has called the failure of institutions and Robert Steele called the paradigms of failure. Top-down command & control is incapable of meshing with bottom-up complexity that demands clarity, diversity, integrity, and legitimacy in …
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U.S. Mobilizes to Send Assistance to Haiti Phi Beta Iota: US military has been slow but more attentive than in the past. They still lack Peace Jumpers, rapid-response peace flights, and multinational intelligence and logistics coordination “in a box.” Afterthought: PSYOP facilities, personnel, budget, and air leaflet capabilities could all be beneficially transfered to the …
Superb From Right of Center–VERY Satisfying Competent Collection January 10, 2010 Melvyn Leffler and Jeffrey Legro Of the three books I bought to explore this particular theme, this was the best by far and the only one to earn five stars. Twelve chapters, twelve authors, not a single runt in this litter. The notes are …
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Utterly Brilliant Synthesis, Vital First Step–US Violates Every Single Principle December 18, 2009 United States Institute of Peace This book is a six-star special and will be so rated at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog, where I cluster like non-fictions books in 98 categories, one of which is Stabilization & Reconstruction. At its …
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