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2010/02/202011/02/21

Review: SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa

Beyond Six Stars–Hugely Important Useful Collection February 20, 2010 Edited by Sokari Ekine Contributing authors include Redante Asuncion-Reed, Amanda Atwood, Ken Banks, Chrstinia Charles-Iyoha, Nathan Eagle, Sokari Ekine, Becky Faith, Joshua Goldstein, Christian Kreutz, Anil Naidoo, Berna Ngolobe, Tanya Notley, Juliana Rotich, and Bukeni Wazuri This book will be rated 6 Stars and Beyond at …

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2010/02/202010/02/20

Review: Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country

Read Fire Side Chat Review–This is Supplemental February 20, 2010 William Greider Very rarely do I find reviews as lengthy as my own. Please read and appreciate the Fireside Chat review that is deservedly popular with readers. I first encountered William Greider while managing the international conference on “National Security and National Competitiveness: Open Source …

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2010/02/202010/02/20

Search: how much is al-qaeda worth?

Very cool question. We don’t have the answers, but here are a few thoughts. Who benefits? There is only one beneficiary of Al Qaeda as a virtual actor: the US Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Congressional Complex whose outrageously wasteful funding and excessive (70%) obligations to contractors are bankrupting the US economy, but who cares as long as the corporate …

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2010/02/18

Journal: Obama’s Atomic Blunder (Or Not)

By Harvey Wasserman As Vermont seethes with radioactive contamination and the Democratic Party crumbles, Barack Obama has plunged into the atomic abyss. In the face of fierce green opposition and withering scorn from both liberal and conservative budget hawks, Obama has done what George W. Bush could not—pledge billions of taxpayer dollars for a relapse …

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2010/02/172010/02/17

Journal: Israel Bombs Gaza Agriculture

Worth a close read. This is the daily drill. Israel bombs Gaza’s agricultural sector to the brink Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 15 February 2010 With most of Gaza’s border region wells, cisterns and water lines destroyed by Israeli forces during last winter’s attacks, farmers have been largely left with no option but to wait …

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2010/02/162010/02/16

Review: Yachtsman in Red China

Real Life From Building the Boat to Being Captured by the Chinese February 16, 2010 David J. Steele I watched my father build the Piver Tri-Maran in his garage and front yard of our home in Saigon, South Viet-Nam (at the time). This book is a still exciting story of an oil engineer and manager …

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2010/02/112010/02/11

Journal: Haiti Net Assessment as of 11 February 2010

Phi Beta Iota Net Assessment: The US Government succeeded at what it set out to do: evacuate Americans and stabilize the US Embassy. The US Coast Guard, specifically, distinguished itself, but it was not properly managed by the White House. The US Government has failed terribly at the strategic level (not recognizing that massive aid …

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