Winslow Wheeler: Purge the Generals to Fix the Army + Flag Corruption and Ineptitude RECAP

There is a devastating review of the quality of Army leadership at the new issue of Armed Forces Journal.  At Armed Forces Journal, it is an article by Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (“Purge the Generals”), and it merits the attention of anyone following military affairs, I believe.  If you think Army leadership is an island of …

Chuck Spinney: White House Blows Iran — Again….

The Washington Jerkocracy Strikes Again by Rami G. Khouri Agence-Global, 07 Aug 2013 Rami G. Khouri is Editor-at-large of The Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. You can follow him @ramikhouri.   BEIRUT — I would love …

Mini-Me: Argentine President Opposes Security Council Veto, Deepens Latin American Rejection of NATO, OAS, and UN — Palestine and Malvinas Cited

Huh? Argentine president takes on Security Council veto Associated Press, 6 August 2013 Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez used the opportunity of presiding over the U.N. Security Council for the first time Tuesday to take aim at the veto power of its five permanent members _ the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France. Fernandez also …

Mini-Me: Is Michael Scheuer A Jesuit Agent of Influence?

Huh? Earthlinggb’s Blog WHO IS MICHAEL SCHEUER? Hot on the heels of my last blogpost “Israel: The contrarian agenda” comes this. Michael Scheuer – the ex CIA man who is throwing his word around the world on media and at International book festivals as if he is some “guru” of the Intelligence world – which, being …

Thematic Content Analysis in an Early Warning System for Deterrence

Thematic Content Analysis in an Early Warning System for Deterrence Peter Suedfeld and Ryan W. Cross The University of British Columbia Thematic Content Analysis (TCA) is a method for converting qualitative material, such as verbal text, to quantitative data through replicable, reliable, and rigorous procedures. A variety of coding manuals are available to score for …

Chuck Spinney: Sick People at the Aspen Summit — “Extermination” Fantasies of the Empire

What kind of people are running American?  Here are some insights. Shocking ‘Extermination’ Fantasies By the People Running America’s Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit Security Forum participants expressed total confidence in American empire, but could not contain their panic at the mention of Snowden. AlterNet / By Max Blumenthal, July 25, 2013  Seated …

Preston James: White House About to Go Public on extraterrestrials?

Secret Space War V: Exopolitics Veterans Today, 22 July 2013 Recently there have been well founded rumors that the USG is now in the process of setting up an official Office for Exopolitics and considering several esteemed individuals from which to choose a director to run this new office. Exopolitics is the official, public admission …