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2012/04/302012/04/30

David Swanson: Sibel Edmonds Finally Wins

Sibel Edomonds Finally Wins Sibel Edmonds’ new book, Classified Woman, is like an FBI file on the FBI, only without the incompetence. The experiences she recounts resemble K.’s trip to the castle, as told by Franz Kafka, only without the pleasantness and humanity. I’ve read a million reviews of nonfiction books about our government that …

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2012/04/292013/01/31

Stephen Marrin: Evaluating the Quality of Intelligence Analysis: By What (Mis) Measure? With Comment by Robert Steele

Stephen Marrin Post-revision draft18 July 2011. Original draft submitted to Intelligence and National Security on 4 February 2011. Accepted for publication on 24 May 2011 pending minor revision. Evaluating the Quality of Intelligence Analysis: By What (Mis) Measure?< Dr. Stephen Marrin is a Lecturer in the Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at Brunel University …

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2012/04/282012/04/28

Marcus Aurelius: US Army Chief of Staff Toes the Party Line + Meta-RECAP

Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2012 also Army.mil The U.S. Army In A Time Of Transition Building a flexible force By Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Army Chief of Staff After six months as chief of staff, I can see clearly that the coming decade will be a vital period of transition for the U.S. Army. The …

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2012/04/28

DefDog: Afghan Solider Shoots NATO Soldier, US/NATO “Disingenious”

This line is completely disingenuous…..shows the lack of knowledge of the Afghan people…… Afghan Special Forces Soldier Shoots US Mentor It follows another shooting incident earlier this week By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff newser, Apr 27, 2012 A member of Afghanistan’s elite special forces—a group that is supposed to be rigorously vetted—shot and killed an …

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2012/04/27

Review: The Lessons of History (First Edition)

Will and Ariel Durant Beyond 6 Stars, So Fundamental as to be Priceless April 27, 2012 By Robert D. Steele HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER When I donated by 2500 volume library to George Mason University (down from 5000 in earlier years), this is one of a tiny handful of books I held back, along …

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2012/04/27

Howard Rheingold: Ann Blair on The History of Information

Ann Blair on The History of Information The history professor and author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organised and used information… Amazing read and historical perspective about transmission. Knowledge and information are actually very different …

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2012/04/272012/04/27

Winslow Wheeler: The Jet That Ate the Pentagon (and the Integrity of Everyone Serving in The Pentagon, in OMB and GAO, in Congress, and in the White House)

This new commentary on the F-35 appears at the website for Foreign Policy at . It is a short piece that does not need to be summarized by me. The editors at Foreign Policy gave it a wonderfully insightful title: The Jet That Ate the Pentagon BY WINSLOW WHEELER | APRIL 26, 2012 The United States is …

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