Journal: Versailles on the Potomac Implodes…Again

Chuck Spinney sends…. The Afghan debacle is becoming a case study of how political debate in Versailles drips in a naturally self-organizing way to protect the dysfunctional status quo. As I indicated yesterday and in September, the fundamental flaw that set the stage for the current policy making fiasco was the unexamined analytical hole in …

Journal: Iran brings Frenchwoman, embassy staff to trial, seeks to prove foreign funding of internal opposition

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 42 mins ago TEHRAN, Iran – A young French academic and local employees of the British and French embassies appeared before an Iranian judge Saturday along with dozens of opposition figures accused of involvement in the country’s postelection unrest. The extraordinary mass trial …

2009 The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer the World (Faculty of Advanced Engineering University of British Columbia March 2009)

Handouts (Their Site) PPT (Our Site): 2009 UBC The Ultimate Hack Slides 2.0 FINAL, with Notes) With a tip of the hat the University of British Columbia and Professor John Meech of the Faculty of Advanced Engineering, this is the latest briefing.  As with most of my briefings, planned words for brevity can be found …

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Conscious, Evolutionary, Integral Activism & Goodness

Conscious, Evolutionary, Integral Activism & Goodness Review DVD: Bonhoeffer (2003) Review DVD: Humanity Ascending Series Part 1: OUR STORY featuring Barbara Marx Hubbard Review DVD: Remember the Titans (Full Screen Edition) Review DVD: Schindler’s List (Full Screen Edition) Review DVD: The Hawk Is Dying Review DVD: The Snow Walker (2003) Review DVD: What the Bleep …

2012 U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: 450-Ship Navy, <24 Hours to Anywhere, Peace from the Sea -- Full Text Online

I wrote the original Somali piracy overview for US CENTCOM J-2P in 2005–no one wanted to take on the problem.  A few years later I was told by both USSOCOM and Navy Irregular Warfare–I am not making this up–that the reason they did not take an interest at the time was that it was “not …