David Isenberg: The Cost-Savings Fantasy (Corruption) of Using Private Military Contractors

The Cost-Savings Fantasy David Isenberg Huffington Post, 9/15/2011 Sometimes it is difficult to decide what to write about in the world of private military and security contracting issues, as there are usually a few different stories in the news on any given day that are relevant. Today, however, I don’t have that problem as there …

Koko: Day of Rage 17 September–How Will it End?

Koko Signs:  Is anyone paying attention?  We gorillas consider this kind of thing extremely significant. U.S. Day of Rage planned for Saturday — an Arab Spring in America? By Elizabeth Flock Thousands of people from across the country are planning to converge on Wall Street this Saturday to protest America’s “corrupt democratic process” and the …

Reference: Secrecy Report 2011 (OpentheGovernment.org)

  Steering Committee Members Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists Gary D. Bass, Bauman Foundation Tom Blanton, National Security Archive Lynne Bradley, American Library Association Danielle Brian, Project on Government Oversight* Kenneth Bunting, National Freedom of Information Coalition Lucy Dalglish, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Kevin Goldberg, American Society on News Editors Robert …

Reference: Council of Europe on Abuse of State Secrecy — the Beginning of Global Push-Back on CIA Rendition, Torture, and Assassination–JSOG Next

Council of Europe Draft Resolution on Abuse of State Secrecy and National Security Tip of the Hat to Public Intelligence.Net at Twitter.  In our view this represents the beginning of global push-back against crimes against humanity by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) acting “in our name” and at our expense.  Similar push-back against the Joint …

Howard Rheingold: Infotention Skills + Citizen Intel RECAP

Infotention Skills: From Information Overload to Knowledge Navigation An immersive learning experience from the Institute for Social & Network Literacy 21st Century Information Fluency Self-guided Assessment and Tutorial Packages Phi Beta Iota:  US education, like the rest of government-dominated programs, is totally broken.  Apart from the 22% now unemployed, another 22% can expect to be …