NIGHTWATCH Extract: Anti-Piracy Without A Clue…

Somalia anti-piracy patrol: Reuters Africa published a report that European Union foreign ministers are expected to extend the bloc’s anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia for another year next week. Rear Admiral Peter Hudson, Commander of the European Union Naval Force Somalia, said he expected a new extension of its mandate which expires in …

Review: Corruption and Anti-Corruption–An Applied Philosophical Approach

Beyond Six Stars: Superb Foundation Work–Should Be Translated, May 5, 2010 Seumas Miller, Peter Roberts, Edward Spence Corruption is the pervasive, pernicious, pathological, preemptory, and predatory commonality within the ten high level threats to humanity as identified by the United Nations High-Level Threat Panel and published in 2004 in A More Secure World: Our Shared …

April Post Re-Cap

The following headlines and links are extracted from the Earth Intelligence Network Twitter feed while this site was down in April: » FOIA document on counterfeit $100 note connection to North Korea http://is.gd/bRq31 + US dept of Treasury & ‘federal’ Reserve reveal new $100 bill design to combat counterfeiting (newmoney.gov) http://is.gd/bDDvQ » New global CrisisWatch …

Journal: Pollard, USS Liberty, & The Big Truth

In American politics, the interests of two powerful factions are never questioned by an adoring, pusillanimous Congress: the US Military (really the political-economy of the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex) and Israel (a foreign country represented by the Israeli lobby and its domestic allies).  To date, the interests and welfare of these two factions …

Video: Iraq Elections but Without Stability + New Book “The Iraq Papers”

Thanks to Steven Aftergood & Secrecy News for the heads up on the new book The Iraq Papers.  Secrecy News’ email newsletter describes it this way: An extensive compilation of official documents, policy advocacy statements, and assorted commentary on the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is presented in “The Iraq …