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Review: International Intelligence Cooperation and Accountability

Hans Born (Editor), Ian Leigh (Editor), Aidan Wills (Editor) Four for Content, Zero for Price,August 16, 2011 There are some good contributions in this book, and it is certainly recommended for institutional purchase, but the price is utterly outrageous and completely unacceptable for the individual professional, scholar, or practitioner interest in learning from these authors. …

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Review: No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence

Hamilton Bean 5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular Integrative and Pioneering Work, July 27, 2011 This is a pioneering work that not only explains the true worth of open source intelligence, but also illuminates the institutional bias against it and the pathologies of a culture of secrecy. The use of primary data from interviews makes …

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Review: Critical Choices – The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Goverance

Wolfgang H. Reinicke (Editor), Francis Deng (Editor), Jan Martin Witte (Editor), Thorsten Benner (Editor), Beth Whitaker (Editor), John Gershman (Editor) 5.0 out of 5 stars Global Hybrid Network Governance Primer for UN+, July 21, 2011 By  Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) – See all my reviews Last week I reviewed the first book …

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Tom Atlee: New Developments in Co-Intelligence Work

Dear friends, This last six months most of the Co-Intelligence Institute’s best work has been in behind-the-scenes exploratory conversations, research and development.  We expect the results of all that to become increasingly evident soon. Here’s a sky-view of what we’ve been up to.  I invite you to consider what impact this kind of work has …

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Chuck Spinney: Obama’s Failure of Intelligence & Integrity

My friend Jeff Madrick, and old fashioned liberal democrat in the best sense of the term, has penned a pithy analysis of the anti-empirical madness now dominating the contemporary American political economy.  Jeff concludes that the Right ignores its track record, particularly regarding the clear economic effects of tax cuts, and is rarely challenged on …

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