Reference (2012): Expectations of Intelligence in the Information Age, Review by Steele, Wright, Anon & New Link 3.0

UPDATE: 1 January 2013 from Spanish Dancer: What is most striking to me, and to a few others I have spoken to recently, is the SECDEF quote early in the paper.  If we follow its premise it puts anyone who opposes our projection of power in the cross hairs.  It is this doctrinal fluff that …

Review (Guest): Africa’s World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe

Gerard Prunier 5.0 out of 5 stars a comprehensive account of a vast conflict May 29, 2009 By Kirk Huff This is going to be a complicated review.First, if you know nothing about the wars of central Africa over the past 15 years or so, in particular the Rwanda-related conflicts, this is an awful book …

Review (Guest): The Dark Sahara: America’s War on Terror in Africa

Jeremy Keenan Phi Beta Iota:  See Berto Jongman: Algeria Fronting for US in Fabricating Al Qaeda Threat and Legitimizing US Military Occupation of Sahara? for a short-hand version of the book.  On balance and sight unseen we give the book four stars for provocation, while respecting the guest review below as being meritorious in its …

Richard Stahlman: Free Software Supporter Issue 56

Free Software Supporter Issue 56, November 2012 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 64,307 other activists. That’s 1,124 more than last month! View this issue online here: http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2012/free-software-supporter-issue-56-november-2012 Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience …

Dolphin: Iclanders Approve Their Crowdsourced Constitution

Real democracy, technologically-enabled. Iclanders Approve Their Crowdsourced Constitution Iceland’s citizens were given a chance to help forge a new constitution for their country through Facebook and Twitter, so it’s not surprising that they backed the resulting draft. Now it’s over to the politicians. A constitution is a deeply serious thing: the bedrock of a country’s …