American Creativity is Declining. What Went Wrong—and How We Can Fix It.

The Creativity Crisis For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it. by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, July 10, 2010 Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis …

I Ran Drugs for Uncle Sam–William “Tosh” Plumlee (5 hour audio interview) on the “Dark Alliance”

5 hour interview with Tosh Plumlee on Expert Witness Radio with Mike Levine. In 1999, Tosh Plumlee came on the airwaves and did five hours of interviews, detailing his history of flying drugs into the United States as part of a drug interdiction program. Part ONE | Part TWO | Part THREE | Part FOUR …

Journal: DoD Makes One Intelligent Decision, Congress Freaks

Serious, probably righteous if expensive program.     Washington Post   June 19, 2010    Pg. 1 U.S. Buying Helicopters From Russia: Lawmakers balk at Pentagon’s purchases for Afghan air corps By Craig Whitlock The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan’s fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from …

The Mexico + American Narcosphere (Calling Carlos “Slim” Helu)

Excellent May 31, 2010 New Yorker article by William Finnegan called Letter from Mexico, Silver or Lead which is unfortunately only available by subscription only (click here for link to abstract also pasted below) The most telling two words of the article = “state capture.” ABSTRACT: LETTER FROM MEXICO about La Familia Michoacana and the …

Castro’s secret archives: US Special Ops prepares to snatch five decades of damaging material

(From March 24-25) Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) has learned from knowledgeable sources in the Pentagon that the U.S. Special Operations Command has recently been tasked to come up with a covert operation designed to snatch the secret archives complied over five decades by former Cuban President Fidel Castro. Our sources report that among Castro’s archives …