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Berto Jongman: US Special Operations Command Goal — Prevent Wars, Bottom Up Community Based Resilience — Never Mind Strategic-Level Blunders, Ideology, & Predatory Policies, Drones, Dictators…1.1

Socom’s goal: Pre-empt wars Tampa is headquarters for the commandos who are gaining a bigger role in military operations around the globe. Military writer Howard Altman travels with them this month in Afghanistan. By Howard Altman | Tribune Staff Tampa Tribune,  May 19, 2013 They make small footprints at the edges of the Earth. Sometimes …

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David Isenberg: What Rules, If Any, Should Govern Death by Drone? (Never mind the 98% collateral damage….)

What Rules Should Govern US Drone Attacks? April 4, 2013 Kenneth Roth Larry Towell/Magnum Photos Drone aircraft at a US base, Afghanistan, 2011 As bits and pieces of the Obama administration’s legal justifications for its drone attacks trickle out, what is most striking is their deliberate ambiguity. The recent Justice Department “White Paper,” for example, …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Principles of Open Source and Social Media Align

Principles of Open Source and Social Media Align One of the newest major paths of technology, social media, owes much to a well-established model, open source. Giovanni Rodriguez draws many similarities between the two technologies (and ways of thinking) in his article for Forbes, “What Social Media (And the World) Owes to Open Source.” Rodriguez …

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Jean Lievin: Micro-Manufacturing and Open Source Everything — Re-Empowering Labor over Capital

Micro Manufacturing, Third Wave Style…Perfect for Worker Coops? In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits By Chris Anderson The door of a dry-cleaner-size storefront in an industrial park in Wareham, Massachusetts, an hour south of Boston, might not look like a portal to the future of American manufacturing, but it is. This …

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John Robb: Open Source Warfare Never Goes Away (Right) — Boston Bombing Was Open Source Warfare (Wrong) + Boston Bombing RECAP

OPEN SOURCE WARFARE never goes away Boston is a reminder that:  Open source warfare doesn’t ever go away. It can be revived with a terrible suddenness, as we saw at the Boston Marathon. The grievances and motivations  for attacks never die.  They can always find a corner of the Web to fester and grow, in …

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Peggy Holman: 16-19 May 2013 St. Petersburg FL World Open Space on Open Space

World Open Space on Open Space   May 16-19, St. Petersburg, Florida By and for Open Space practitioners, the annual Open Space Technology practitioner’s gathering is sure to be exciting this year. If the practice of self-organizing is something you care about, join a free-ranging, in-depth discussion with people from around the world.  For more …

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