Onset of Death for the Two-Party Tyranny….
Death of the Duopoly Being binary is bad for business, so when will politics cure its bipolar disorder? Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch on the lessons Washington should learn from the real world. By NICK GILLESPIE and MATT WELCH Wall Street Journal, Saturday, June 18, 2011 Nothing in American life today seems as archaic, ubiquitous …
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Obama Over-Rules Top Lawyers on Libya Attacks
2 Top Lawyers Lost to Obama in Libya War Policy Debate By CHARLIE SAVAGE June 17, 2011 WASHINGTON — President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without …
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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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US Billions in Cash Stolen in Early Days of Iraq II
US: $6.6bn in Iraq aid ‘may have been stolen’ By David Usborne, US Editor Tuesday, 14 June 2011 Years after American auditors said they had lost track of vast sums of reconstruction cash for Iraq in the wake of the ousting of Saddam Hussein they are now admitting for the first time that much of …
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Non-Geek Digerati Anti-Intellectualism
Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism? Is there a new anti-intellectualism? I mean one that is advocated by Internet geeks and some of the digerati. I think so: more and more mavens of the Internet are coming out firmly against academic knowledge in all its forms. This might sound outrageous to say, but it is …
Review: Tremble the Devil
Anonymous [US counterterrorism analyst] NOTE: Free Online, Table of Contents Beyond Five Stars–Epic, Poetic, Startling, Reasoned, June 11, 2011 I have been totally absorbed with this book, and I HATE electronic books. At the age of 58, if I can’t hold it and flip back and forth and quickly check the index, and so on, …
