Review: Day of Empire–How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall
Disappointing, Oversold, Original as far as it goes, January 11, 2008
Review: Grand Strategies in War and Peace
Gems by Kennedy, can safely skip the rest, January 7, 2008
Review: Day of Reckoning–How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart
One of A Handful of “Must Reads” for Christmas December 13, 2007 Patrick Buchanan Amazon ate my earlier review, probably because they did not like all the links I included to make the point that while Patrick Buchanan is dead on target as an individual minds, there is a *huge* convergence of public opinion from …
Review: What We Say Goes
5.0 out of 5 stars Dick Cheney Pulls Noam Chomsky to the Center (Relatively Speaking) October 18, 2007 Noam Chomsky Edit of 15 Jun 09 to correct factual error in original review (nuclear deal with Iran under Gerald Ford, not Ronald Reagan, in 1974). Chomsky is actually starting to win over the balanced middle with …
Graphic: Government Intelligence Tribe (3 of 8)
The government intelligence tribe is much much larger than just the secret national intelligence element. Govenrment is a beneficiary–a consumer–of open source information–rather than a primary generator. There are some very positive trends toward assuring that all information paid for by the taxpayer are placed in the public domain in digital form, and some governments, …
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Amazon Book Lists: Eight Demographic Challengers
Earth Player #1: Brazil (July 7, 2007) Earth Player #2: China (July 7, 2007) Earth Player #3: India (July 7, 2007) Earth Player #4: Indonesia (July 7, 2007) Earth Player #5: Iran (July 7, 2007) Earth Player #6: Russia (July 7, 2007) Earth Player #7: Venezuela (July 7, 2007) Earth Player #8: Wild Cards (July …
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Review: Foreign Follies–America’s New Global Empire
Definitive Statement on How Real Conservatives Despise Bush Lies and Cheney High Crimes, August 11, 2007
