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2013/10/01

John Steiner: From Sanity Central on NSA and the Surveillance State

“The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984, (said Guardian Editor) Alan Rusbridger . ‘Orwell could never have imagined this concept of scooping up everything all the time’. The NSA stories were ‘clearly’ not about totalitarianism, but an infrastructure had been created that could be dangerous if it fell …

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2013/10/012013/10/01

John Maguire: MFMP the Linux of LENR/Cold Fusion

The Martin Fleischman Memorial Project (MFMP) is a modular, open source LENR/Cold Fusion commercialization project designed to rival the aspirations of proprietary LENR/CF corporations such as Leonardo (Rossi), Brillouine, and Defkalion. Lead researcher Tyler van Houwelingen calls the MFMP the “Linux of LENR”. Their Mission Statement:To make the biggest impact and overcome the hurdle of institutional bias …

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2013/09/302013/09/30

Steve Aftergood: To Fix US Intelligence, Shrink It

TO FIX U.S. INTELLIGENCE, SHRINK IT? Criticism of U.S. intelligence takes many forms: Intelligence agencies are too secretive, or they are too leaky. They over-collect, or they under-perform. Or all of these, and more besides. Many of the criticisms can be reduced to a single argument: The U.S. intelligence community has become too large to …

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2013/09/30

David Swanson: This Way to Peace by Kathy Kelly

This Way By Kathy Kelly This article is the foreword to David Swanson’s new book, War No More: The Case for Abolition. I lived in Iraq during the 2003 Shock and Awe bombing. On April 1st, about two weeks into the aerial bombardment, a medical doctor who was one of my fellow peace team members …

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2013/09/302013/09/30

Penguin: Book Review by Andrew Bacevich — Thank You For Your Service [The Unraveling]

Book review: ‘Thank You for Your Service’ by David Finkel By Andrew Bacevich Andrew J. Bacevich teaches at Boston University. His new book is “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.” Nominally a sequel to The Good Soldiers, his 2009 account of an American infantry battalion at war in Iraq, David …

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2013/09/262013/09/26

David Swanson: Top 45 Lies in Obama’s Speech at the U.N.

Top 45 Lies in Obama’s Speech at the U.N. 1. President Obama’s opening lines at the U.N. on Tuesday looked down on people who would think to settle disputes with war. Obama was disingenuously avoiding the fact that earlier this month he sought to drop missiles into a country to “send a message” but was …

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