Review (Guest): The Global Village Myth (Grand Strategy)

The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power By Patrick Porter Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015 Reviewed by Steven Metz, Director of Research at the US Army War College The Global Village Myth is short, tightly-argued body blow to contemporary American security policy. In it Patrick Porter takes on an important …

Robert Steele: UNHINGED — Two Books on Terror Reviewed (Rebuttal, a Book of Lies & Broken!, Truth as Fiction)

UNHINGED: American Terror, Torture, & Treason SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/CIA-UNHINGED Robert David Steele PDF (5 Pages): UNHINGED TORTURE as published with cover matter Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program by Porter Goss et al, Naval Institute Press, 352 pp., £14.99, September, ISBN 978 1 591 14587 …

Review: Big Data, Little Data, No Data – Scholarship in the Networked World

Christine L. Borgman 5 Stars Major Contribution with Some Oversights This book is extremely well-developed and and a major contribution, not least because it it one of the best explorations of information ecologies that are vastly more intricate and cover vastly more time, energy, and locational space, than most realize. It was recommended to me …

Review: Rebuttal – CIA “Leaders” Double-Down on Lies

Bill Harlow (Editor), George Tenet (Introduction), Porter J. Goss (Contributor), Michael V. Hayden USAF (Ret.) (Contributor), John McLaughlin (Contributor), Michael Morell (Contributor), Philip Mudd (Contributor), John Rizzo (Contributor), Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. (Contributor) 1 Star Authors Double-Down on Lies Told Previously I am a co-signer of the below letter to the President of the United …

Review (Guest): Broken! A true story of terror, torture, and treason, in fictional form to avoid legal retaliation against those who were there

Michael Kearns, Ronald Solomon 5 Stars. Classic thriller: how a nation was “broken” by torture and drone policies gone beserk By Jeffrey S. Kaye on September 19, 2015 Michael Kearns and Ronald Solomon have written one of the most important books of the year, and one of the most entertaining. Drawing on Kearns’ experience in …

Review (Guest): All the Presidents’ Bankers – The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power

Nomi Prins Essential reading on the deep, dark history of crony capitalism in America By John Butler on March 29, 2014 Nomi Prins has done it again. With All the Presidents’ Bankers, she shows in exhaustive detail how Wall Street has captured the US political and regulatory process: Left, Right, Up, Down, Sideways. Indeed, as …