Chris Hedges: The Most Dangerous Woman in America – a City Council PhD Socialist in Seattle

The Most Dangerous Woman in America SEATTLE — Kshama Sawant, the socialist on the City Council, is up for re-election this year. Since joining the council in January of 2014 she has helped push through a gradual raising of the minimum wage to $15 an hour in Seattle. She has expanded funding for social services …

Reference: 2014 Declassified CIA Documents

Studies in Intelligence: A Digest of Declassified CIA Documents For the benefit of researchers, Lawfare has reviewed and digested documents released in September of 2014 by the Central Intelligence Agency. The bulk of the materials hail from the CIA’s in-house intelligence journal, Studies in Intelligence. We have grouped the documents in rough thematic fashion and, within …

Steven Aftergood: ODNI Rethinks Secrecy and Openness in Intelligence — 25 Years Late, Neither Credible nor Effective, Still Missing the Point!

ODNI Rethinks Secrecy and Openness in Intelligence By leaking classified intelligence documents, Edward Snowden transformed public awareness of the scale and scope of U.S. intelligence surveillance programs. But his actions are proving to be no less consequential for national security secrecy policy. “These leaks have forced the Intelligence Community to rethink our approach to transparency …

Robin Good: 6 Ways to Add Value to Content Curation

Pawan Deshpande outlines, explains and illustrates with real examples six different approaches that you can use to add value to your content curation efforts. He outlines how to: Abstract Summarize Quote Retitle Storyboard Parallelize My comment: Excellent resource for content marketers wanting to move up one level the level of their curation, from simple republishing …

2013 26 Oct DC OSS Society Donovan Award Dinner

Please join the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society  for the presentation of the William J. Donovan Award® to Admiral William H. McRaven USN, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), in Washington, DC, on October 26, 2013. Prior to assuming command of USSOCOM in August 2011, Admiral McRaven served as commander of the Joint Special Operations …