The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Susan Landau 5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive text on the topic July 8, 2011 Ben Rothke Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies is a hard book to categorize. It is not about security, but it deals extensively with it. It is not a law book, but legal topics are pervasive …
Joseph G. Bock 5.0 out of 5 stars Pioneering Work, Deserves a Great Deal of Attention, April 29, 2013 I am shocked that there are no reviews of this book. Brought to my attention by Berto Jongman, one of the top researchers in Europe with a special talent at the intersection of terrorism and related …
April 27, 2013 Departing French Envoy Has Frank Words on Afghanistan By ALISSA J. RUBIN KABUL, Afghanistan — It is always hard to gauge what diplomats really think unless one of their cables ends up on WikiLeaks, but every once in a while, the barriers fall and a bit of truth slips into public view. …
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Manuel Castells Book Description This book is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, …
Evgeny Morozov 5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a decent critique of Internet as ideology March 8, 2013 By Peter Socolow Snarky? Check. Contrarian? Check. Demanding? Check. That’s enough checks for me: most books don’t go that far. So, to be blunt: whatever its flaws, this book deserves to be widely read and argued about. …
Evgeny Morozov 5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Recycling and Internet-Centrism, a tale of Cyber-Utopia Gone Really Wrong, November 30, 2012 Abhinav Agarwal (Bangalore, India) Dunks a much needed, well-reasoned, and well-researched bucket of cold-water over “Internet-centrists” and “cyber-utopians” (cyber-utopianism is a “naïve belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication”), and assembles together an …
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Huh? Clergy Were Reportedly Banned From the Deadly Boston Bombing Scene — Here Are the Details The chaos that unfolded in the minutes and hours following two deadly explosions at the Boston Marathon earlier this month was widely reported. But one of the finer details that has been given little attention until now is the …
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