Journal: Wayne Madson on “Conflict or Revolution”

Confidential Doc Warns Of Conflict Or Revolution For US Wayne Madsen Report 4-3-8 WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources within the US financial community that an alarming confidential and limited distribution document is circulating among senior members of Congress and their senior staff members that is warning of a bleak future for the United States …

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 13 Nov 09

Hot Topics AA: Arab experts predict Mideast water wars 11/13/09 AA: Americans and Western Europeans Agree on Afghanistan-Pakistan Extremist Threat 11/11/09 AA: Muslims must quit British Forces, says Iranian envoy Abdolhossein Moezi 11/14/09 AA: Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are not best countries for … 11/13/09 AA: Terror training camps smaller, harder to target 11/09/09 …

Journal: Versailles on the Potomac Implodes…Again

Chuck Spinney sends…. The Afghan debacle is becoming a case study of how political debate in Versailles drips in a naturally self-organizing way to protect the dysfunctional status quo. As I indicated yesterday and in September, the fundamental flaw that set the stage for the current policy making fiasco was the unexamined analytical hole in …

Journal: Out-Sourcing Corruption

U.S. Nonprofit Screws up Iraq Jobs Program, Now Working on Afghanistan Repeat By Nathan Hodge November 11, 2009 As Joanna Nathan recently warned at ForeignPolicy.com, the U.S. government’s business-as-usual approach of outsourcing development work could have very negative consequences for the mission in Afghanistan. “If gaudy new mansions built in the local ‘narco-tecture’ style are …

Journal: Taming the Informal Shadow Government

What do the MICC, the Collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the Financial Meltdown Have in Common? I strongly recommend that readers study carefully the attached article by Janine Wedel.  She analyzes the emergence of self-organizing government – industry networks in the post communist states and then compares these structures to the very similar emergence of …