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Various Contributors: Continuing Insanity – Potpourri

The Enigma of Israel (CounterPunch) Fukushima Roulette (CounterPunch) Will Corporations Prevent the Singularity? (IEET) The Death of Investigative Journalism (CounterPunch) Corps, Army to restart ‘forcible entry’ drills (Army Times) The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (WIRED) Guantanamo Prison’s True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington (OpEd News) US and Iranian …

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Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict, Aid in Africa

Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict and Aid in Africa I recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Texas, Austin, and finally had the opportunity to catch up with my colleague Josh Busby who has been working on a promising crisis mapping project as part of the university’s Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS). Josh and …

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Mini-Me: Bin Laden Road Show Begins Part I – David Ignatius on the CIA’s “Captured” Abbottabad Files

Huh?  We do not make this stuff up.  CIA’s Covert Action Staff is evidently having a ball, and David Ignatius has no problem playing the bimbo.  Note the built-in pre-excuse on poor syntax.  Note the pretense that incoherence was connected to long periods of time between sending, receiving, and responding.  The hit on Fox is …

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Chuck Spinney: Investigating NATO’s War Crimes Against Libya

Investigations Around Libya NATO’S Craven Coverup of Its Libyan Bombing by VIJAY PRASHAD, Counterpunch, March 15, 2012 Ten days into the uprising in Benghazi, Libya, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council established the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya. The purpose of the Commission was to “investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law in …

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Berto Jongman: Humanitarian Aid & Forgotten Conflicts

Some important connections drawn between aid, corruption, and positive change; and also important omissions — conflicts out of the news where paying attention could make a difference. Singling Out Forgotten Conflicts The ISN Blog, 15 March 2012 A popular method for identifying which conflicts necessitate more attention from the international community is to estimate the …

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Patrick Meier: Truthiness as Propability – Moving Beyond Absolutism within the Global Social Media Information Environment

Truthiness as Probability: Moving Beyond the True or False Dichotomy when Verifying Social Media I asked the following question at the Berkman Center’s recent Symposium on Truthiness in Digital Media: “Should we think of truthiness in terms of probabili-ties rather than use a True or False dichotomy?” The wording here is important. The word “truthiness” …

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