Review (Guest): Find, Fix, Finish – Inside the Counter-Terrorism Campaign that Killed Bin Laden and Devastated Al Qaeda

Aki Peritz and Eric Rosenbach Ways of making men talk Alan Judd Spectator (UK) Book Club, 24 March 2012 Eric Rosenbach is a former academic who is now deputy assistant secretary of defence in Washington. Aki Peritz used to work for the CIA and now advises the Third Way think tank. Their book, therefore, is …

Mini-Me: From JFK to 9/11 Spotlight Shines on the CIA

Huh? Launching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia1 Bush’s Terror War and the Fixing of Intelligence On September 11, 2001, within hours of the murderous 9/11 attacks, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney had committed America to what they later called the “War on Terror.” It should more properly, I believe, be …

Betty Boop: Stratfor as a Neo-Con / Mossad Scam

Responding to Richard Wright: USMC “Learns” From StratFor – Integrity? – We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Integrity Back in 2002 while I was at a major Command, Friedman made a pitch to provide “ground truth” intelligence on contract.  While some folks went gaga over his presentation, there were many small indicators that all was not …

Venessa Miemis: Critical Need for Self-Care When World-Building

The Critical Need for Self-Care When World Building emergent by design, 21 February 2012 There’s a lot going on right now. I’m in the process of federating with a large number of people across the globe to form a new kind of living systems organization, and lay down infrastructures that we intend will lead us towards …