Review (Guest): The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education

Charles Hugh Smith Publisher’s Overview: With the soaring cost of higher education, has the value a college degree been turned upside down. College tuition and fees are up 1000% since 1980. Half of all recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, revealing a deep disconnect between higher education and the job market. It is no …

Preston James: Inside the Beltway III — The Big Shift [Cultural Intelligence]

Inside Beltway III: Creating Cover for Big Shift Preston James Veterans Today, 30 September 2013 Inside the beltway, it’s doofuses ‘R us and perhaps the world’s biggest collection of gangsters, liars, criminal psychopaths and incompetents. And now it’s getting exposed, even in the major mass media and the alternative Internet Media is going wild exposing …

Penguin: Book Review by Andrew Bacevich — Thank You For Your Service [The Unraveling]

Book review: ‘Thank You for Your Service’ by David Finkel By Andrew Bacevich Andrew J. Bacevich teaches at Boston University. His new book is “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.” Nominally a sequel to The Good Soldiers, his 2009 account of an American infantry battalion at war in Iraq, David …

Berto Jongman: Twitter and the Transformation of Democracy

Twitter and the transformation of democracy The social networking service has the power to control the expression of public opinion in political debate John Naughton The Observer, Saturday 14 September 2013  The news that Twitter has taken the first steps towards a stock marketflotation has triggered a predictable storm of speculation about the valuation of the company. How much is a …

Review: The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq

John Diamond 4.0 out of 5 stars Got the Obvious Right, Misses Everything Else, September 4, 2013 I regard Retired Reader as an alter ego and top gun in the field, so his review has my vote. If the book were current (it was published in 2008) I would be tempted to buy it but …