John Robb: Open Source Warfare Never Goes Away (Right) — Boston Bombing Was Open Source Warfare (Wrong) + Boston Bombing RECAP

OPEN SOURCE WARFARE never goes away Boston is a reminder that:  Open source warfare doesn’t ever go away. It can be revived with a terrible suddenness, as we saw at the Boston Marathon. The grievances and motivations  for attacks never die.  They can always find a corner of the Web to fester and grow, in …

John Maguire: An Evolving Systems Analysis of Sandy Hook

An Evolving Systems Analysis of Sandy Hook Sandy Hook in a New Light: Lately I find myself attempting to fit both personal experience and global events into a General Systems framework. General Systems Theory is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry pioneered by biologist Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy. It seeks to expound principles that are applicable to …

Chuck Spinney: Manufacturing Dissent – The Rise of the Tea Party as an Elite Front – Opposite of OWS

Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch.  DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …

Robert Steele: REVOLUTION NOW! Thinking About Revolution (Trump Revolution 23)

2011 THINKING ABOUT REVOLUTION Robert David Steele Intelligence Program, Marine Corps University, AY 1992-1993 Updated to Include Pre-Conditions of Revolution Graphic for USA Today (2011) Drawn from 1976 Thesis: Theory, Risk Assessment, and Internal War: A Framework for the Observation of Revolutionary Potential where all appropriate citations and data operationalizations can be found. Original As …