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2012/02/23

Penguin: War is Bad for the Economy – Not Obvious Before, Now It Is Documented

The Consequences Of War On The US Economy Joshua Brown, The Reformed Broker Business Insider,23 February 2012 Psst…wanna learn something today? The Institute for Economics and Peace is out with a monumental piece of research on how wars affect the US economy… Using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, figure one shows the composition …

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2012/02/21

Richard Wright: Bound for Failure

Bound for Failure In the brief introduction to a review of the book, Very Special Intelligence, Dolphin noted that the successful tactical doctrine of using combined intelligence and combat troops in tightly organized teams was being seriously diluted by the U.S. IC (read CIA, DIA, NGA and NSA) who were moving to fold the intelligence elements …

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2012/02/212012/02/21

Progressive Press Integrated Bibliography Project

Below is the beginning of an integrated bibliography with links to Amazon pages for each book or DVD, a few links to articles or papers. It provides a searchable means of considering many authors whose books question the mainstream myths while challenging the integrity of the existing blend of neo-everything.

2012/02/202012/02/20

Dolphin: How Are Terrorists Like Submarines? How is the US IC Like the Maginot Line?

Richard Wright’s contribution is more interesting to me since the origins of the entire effort to develop this high value targeting was undertaken by General Dell Daily at the Naval Post Graduate School. I knew the research team, there were joint to the bone. Unfortunately the IC as a whole has tried to automate the …

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2012/02/202012/02/21

Michel Bauwens: Life of the Internet or Internet as Our Life?

Below by Nick Mendoza is recommended! Up front extract: With the decline of state capitalism, capitalist governments and corporations now dream of the internet as the tool for corporate growth through ontological colonialism, free to expand within the mind and the planet, exploiting everyone alike. Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a ‘Rights of the …

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2012/02/18

Patrick Meier: Drones for Non-Violent Resistance

In my previous blog post on the use of drones for human rights, I also advocated for the use of drones to support nonviolent civil resistance efforts. Obviously, like the use of any technology in such contexts, doing so presents both new opportunities and obvious dangers. In this blog post, I consider the use of …

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2012/02/172012/02/17

Chuck Spinney: Right-Wing & Neo-Nazi Merger

Yet another first rate piece of work from my good friend Mike Lofgren. The Right-Wing Id Unzipped Tuesday 14 February 2012 by: Mike Lofgren, Truthout | News Analysis Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren spoke with Truthout in Washington, DC, this fall. Lofgren’s first commentary for Truthout, “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of …

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