Review: Trading Secrets: Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror

Mark Huband 5.0 out of 5 stars Useful to Policy and Intelligence Professionals, as Well as Students and the Public, March 23, 2013 I enjoyed this book, and particularly enjoyed the rather clever the way the author is able to say some pretty devastating things about intelligence failures in a rather bland manner. This book …

Ho Ho Ho: Unhappy Neighbors — South China Sea as Flash Point, Indonesia and Viet-Nam Seek Solutions — China’s U-Shaped Line and String of Pearls

Unhappy Neighbors Ngo Vinh Long The Cairo Review of Foreign Affairs, February 10, 2013 Speaking to diplomats, businessmen and journalists at the British Foreign Office in November, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia emphasized the need for “norms and principles” in resolving disputes in the South China Sea. Why did President Yudhoyono, who was spending …

Open Power: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 3 MAR 2015]

NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …

Chuck Spinney: Kelly Vlahos on the Militarization of Yale Neuroscience

.. Or Escalating the Old Boot On Campus Game Below is an important, excellent and scary report by Kelley Vlahos.  But the MICC’s infiltration of elite campus’s is even worse that Ms. Vlahos says, because it builds on deep historical roots and tradition. Yale, a main focus of her report, has a long history of its …

Marcus Aurelius: Washington Times NAILS the Pentagon for Lack of Integrity — a Total Government Shut-Down for 22 Days, with Documented Cause & Effect Might Shock & Awe

(1) I don’t know whether this article’s headline is accurate or not; I’d like to think it is. (2) IMHO, root causes of sequestration issue lie with POTUS who suggested concept, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction which failed to do their job, and both parties of both houses of Congress who have failed to …