John Petersen: Adam Gopnik Is Intelligence Intelligent? Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?

Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth? The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate. The universal law of unintended consequences rules with a special ferocity in espionage and covert action, because pervasive secrecy rules out the small, …

John Whitehead: The American Gulag — Police State, Predatory Mental Illness Lies, Disarming Veterans…

The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day The age-old practice by which despotic regimes eliminate their critics or potential adversaries by making them disappear—or forcing them to flee—or exiling them literally or figuratively or virtually from their fellow citizens—is happening with increasing frequency in America.

REVIEW: The Divide – American Injustice in the Ago of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi

SUMMARY REVIEW Seven Stars Life Transformational — Sickening Detailed Account of Trillion Dollar Crimes by Bankers Ignored While Black and Latino Workers are Beaten Daily for Profit at the Bottom of the Injustice Pyramid Review by Robert David Steele I read this book on my way to and from Dimensions of Disclosure where I delivered …

J. C. Cole: American Gray Swans – Week 34 – Red Flag the Red Flag Laws

American Gray Swans – Week 34 – Red Flag the Red Flag Laws There is much debate over the Red Flag Laws, so let us disassemble it and look. The Red Flag Law basically is being claimed to protect society by taking firearms out of the hands of potentially dangerous people. This sounds good on …