Worth a Look: Rahm Emanuel conducting pogroms within Obama administration and Democratic Party

Phi Beta Iota: This is a replay of a Wayne Madsen report.  Over lunch we checked with our most connected consultant and learned that this is roughly half right, with some of the specifics names and methods not right, but that over-all there is general consensus on three points:  Rahm is playing dirty “within and …

Journal: Weak Signals–Global Middle Class Populism

A Call to the People of the World to Support Iceland Against Financial Blackmail Birgitta Jónsdóttir Infowars.com January 6, 2009 InfoWar Editor’s note: Birgitta Jónsdóttir is the leader of The Movement, a group within the Icelandic Parliament which has emerged from the mass struggle of Icelanders against the financial blackmail brought to bear against their …

Review: Power & Responsibility–Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threat

Bubba Book January 6, 2010 Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual, Stephen John Stedman EDIT of 7 Jan 09.  I got halfway through another book last night and now understand the Princeton-based idea that the US has enough power to demand changes and that earlier “balance of power” constraints might not apply.  On the one hand, this …

Graphic: GIS Makes Discrimination Black and White

The Revolution Will Be Mapped GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like. Bob Burtman |  December 28, 2009 The institute’s maps played a vital role in a federal jury’s decision last year to …

Journal: Evaluating the Gaza Confrontation

The American strategist and military reformer Colonel John Boyd argued that nations and groups should shape their domestic policies, foreign policies, and military strategies so that they: pump up one’s own resolve and increase one’s own solidarity, drain away the resolve of one’s adversaries and weaken their internal cohesion, reinforce the commitments of allies to …