Mike Lofgren: America’s Three-Tiered Justice System

America’s Three-Tiered Justice System Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:00 By Mike Lofgren, Truthout | News Analysis Big shots are above the law, the government now admits, but a three-tiered justice system has Congress churning out new bills to keep the prison industry booming. “Equal Justice under Law,” is the motto inscribed on the frieze of the United States …

Marcus Aurelius: KR Speculation About North Korea War Risk

From LIGNET (Langley Intelligence Group Network), a local commercial intel firm that trades on the perception, valid or otherwise, that it has ties to CIA. North Korea Threat Real; Retaliation Could Start Hot War March 19, 2013 After just over one year in power, North Korea’s novice leader, 30-year old Kim Jong Un, has dashed …

Thomas Devenport: Those Good at Analytics Not Good at Visualization

Q&A: Tom Davenport urges more clarity in data analytics By Joe McKendrick | March 19, 2013, 4:00 AM PDT 0Comments Businesses may be seeking to compete on analytics, but it’s often difficult for business decision-makers to get their heads around data. I recently had the opportunity to chat with Tom Davenport, visiting professor at Harvard …

Paul Craig Roberts: Iraq Invasion at 10 Years — The legacy of “the war on terror” is the death of liberty.

March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people. The US Secretary of State at that time, General Colin Powell, has …

Chuck Spinney: The Truth About the Cuban Missile Crisis

The below article, which appeared in the Atlantic last January, is a very important illustration of how domestic politics determine foreign policy.  Bear in mind, the behaviour described below occurred when there was (and still is) a consensus among the pol-mil intellectuals that domestic politics stops at the water’s edge and that foreign policy was …

Search (3): Analytic Models, 10 Threats, Threat Support to Acquisition

Ada Bozeman, in Strategic Intelligence and Statecraft: Selected Essays, has written: (There is a need) to recognize that just as the essence of knowledge is not as split up into academic disciplines as it is in our academic universe, so can intelligence not be set apart from statecraft and society, or subdivided into elements…such as …