The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Dream vs. the Kleptocracy Here’s a strong motive for open source warfare — the model of warfare that has become the hallmark of 21st century conlfict, from potest movements to fullscale insurgencies. It’s the driver of the recent conflict in Ukraine. A conflict we’re going to see much more of. A struggle between the …
Update on One Man vs. the World When I wrote Brave New War back in 2006, I made this aggressive projection on how rapid technological change would change warfare: The threshold necessary for small groups to conduct global warfare has finally been breached, and we are only starting to feel its effects. Over time, in …
The National Insecurity State I’m still writing my next book online. Today’s pages might be of interest to GG readers. It’s entitled “The National Insecurity State” There’s also some thinking on the end of bureaucracy if you are interested. I suspect the only thing the US national security bureaucracy can do is launch new arms …
Bossnapping Reuters. Bossnapping returns to France. The target? A couple of unlucky Goodyear executives. What’s bossnapping? Here’s the entry for it in Wikipedia Bossnapping: a form of lock-in where employees detain management in the workplace, often in protest against lay-offs and redundancies, and has especially been carried out in France. The term gained wide usage in the media …
Is making a policy decision in the “National Interest” smart anymore? Probably not. Here’s something I’ve been thinking about. I’ve been grappling with a simple question. Is the use of national interest, as the basis of security and foreign policy, a dumb idea in the present context? National interest is a construct from the realism …
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What has dominated human conflict since the turn of the Millennium? Posted: 26 Sep 2013 03:21 PM PDT Here’s an important question. What do the following have in common? 9/11 and Al Qaeda’s subsequent attacks The Iraq War (the guerrilla war) The Nigerian Conflict (MEND vs. Shell Oil – 2007 — cause of the oil …
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Protests Everywhere (here’s why) We’re seeing protests everywhere. From Brazil to Turkey to Egypt. What’s going on? Here are some. Once ignited, open source protest is hard to stamp out. Open source protest is usually focused on a single overarching goal. In most recent cases, it’s a call for a government that isn’t corrupt. …
