Martin Geddes: Observation on US Military, “President Biden,” & The Final Triumph

You asked me to comment on the Joint Chiefs of Staff letter and the possibility that Biden might actually be inaugurated in some fashion.  This is what I have  to say about that: The “President Biden Show” is going to be laid on by the military. We really are watching a movie. Little is real, …

Review (Publisher): Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement

In the early 2000s, federal enforcement efforts sent white collar criminals at Enron and WorldCom to prison. But since the 2008 financial collapse, this famously hasn’t happened. Corporations have been permitted to enter into deferred prosecution agreements and avoid criminal convictions, in part due to a mistaken assumption that leniency would encourage cooperation and because …

Robert Steele: My Take on POTUS Defense Picks — Intelligence-Driven Strategy, Policy, Acquisition, & Operations May Finally Be Achievable

The recent appointments by the President to the Department of Defense are utterly brilliant and suggest that the era of intelligence-driven strategy, policy, acquisition, and operations may finally be achievable. At the strategic level, this enables Presidential power capable of neutralizing the  military-industrial-intelligence complex that fronts for the Deep State and has been in a …

Berto Jongman: War on the Rocks Zachery Tyson Brown What If Sherman Kent Was Wrong? Revisiting the Intelligence Debate of 1949

What If Sherman Kent Was Wrong? Revisiting the Intelligence Debate of 1949 Zachery Tyson Brown, War on the Rocks One of Kent’s contemporaries noted in 1962 that most policy decisions were made without any input from intelligence — something Kent himself begrudgingly acknowledged and that has since been confirmed again, again, and again. Even when …