Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror. “From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated …

Owl: The Saga of Justice Kavanaugh UPDATE 55: Senate Report Sends Swetnick & Avenatti Toward Jail…

Short Memorable URL if you wish to tell others: http://tinyurl.com/bothright-moveon UPDATE 55: Katz and Avanatti should lose their law licenses. The witnesses who lied with malice should serve jail time. Senate report paints devastating profile of Justice Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick UPDATE 54: The false witnesses against Judge (now Justice) Kavanaugh have been referred for …

Norie Huddle: A Stark Warning About Ignorance Fatal to the Planet — Not A Word About True Cost Economics or Honest Science

‘We Are Climbing Rapidly Out of Humankind’s Safe Zone’: New Report Warns Dire Climate Warnings Not Dire Enough In the new report—titled What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk (pdf)—authors David Splatt and Ian Dunlop, researchers with the National Centre for Climate Restoration (Breakthrough), an independent think tank based in Australia, argue that …

Tom Atlee: Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 3)

Dialogue Guidelines to Deepen Awareness (Part 3) This is the third of three posts in which I share some insightful guidelines for expanding individual and group consciousness by highlighting certain dynamics during dialogue exercises. For more information and background about this remarkable approach, see the first post in the series. That first post, this post, …