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Mini-Me: The Future of Intelligence is Your Dishwasher?

Huh? Marcus Aurelius:  The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will ‘transform’ surveillance Devices connected to internet leak information CIA director says these gadgets will ‘transform clandestine tradecraft’ Spies could watch thousands via supercomputers People ‘bug’ their own homes with web-connected devices DefDog:  CIA loves Internet of things… …

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Mini-Me: From JFK to 9/11 Spotlight Shines on the CIA

Huh? Launching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia1 Bush’s Terror War and the Fixing of Intelligence On September 11, 2001, within hours of the murderous 9/11 attacks, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney had committed America to what they later called the “War on Terror.” It should more properly, I believe, be …

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Chuck Spinney: Obama & Netanyabua — Scorpions in a Bottle

How two scorpions trapped in a bottle weaken each other while they strengthen Hamas and Iran and increase the risks of nuclear proliferation throughout the Middle East. Attached is an excellent explanation of this.  Not addressed specifically, but nevertheless implicit in the discussion is the universal influence of domestic politics in the shaping or a …

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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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Chuck Spinney: Is Israel on Cusp of Grand Strategic Set-Back as Universities Mobilize (Precedent South Africa)?

Grand strategy (described here) can be generalized as a game of interaction and isolation. Viewed from this perspective, Israel’s grand strategy has been to maintain or increase its freedom of action in implementing the expansive Zionist apartheid/colonialist agenda, to include gaining control of the region’s scarce water resources (see here), by — (a) preying on the collective …

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