Books/DVD on LBJ and JFK Assassination–Will This Hurt Governor Perry’s Quest for Presidency?

Below the line, covers, Amazon links, and product descriptions for: LBJ: The Mastermind of JFK’s Assassination Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy–A Coalescence of Interests DVD: The Men Who Killed Kennedy Phi …

DefDog: Skilluminati Invocation–Manifesto for Action

Disgust is gaining traction….. An Invocation Against the Inevitable 1 September 2011 “There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” – McLuhan Skilluminati Research has been a very cynical project…until now. Change of policy: there are no sufficient excuses for inaction. There is no point to …

Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)

EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed. Dear IARPA staff- The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s …

Review (Guest): The Long Twentieth Century – Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

Giovanni Arrighi Product Description Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award for Distinguished Scholarship: a comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium. The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long …

Chuck Spinney: Madness in White House, K Street Thrives

Herewith is Stephen Walt’s excellent critique of US grand strategy in the Middle East since 1990.  My only comment is that he omits the pernicious influences of the arrogance that emerged from our misinterpretation of our “victory” in the Cold War and does not discuss the closely related emergence of Mad Madeline’s nutty theory of …