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Amitai Etzioni: USG Suffering Multiple Realism Deficiency Disorder (MRDD)

The World America Didn’t Make Amitai Etzioni The National Interest, March 21, 2012 Robert Kagan’s book, The World America Made, is refocusing the debate on whether the United States is declining as a global power—and speculation about whether other powers will step in to assume the responsibility for sustaining a liberal, rule-based international order. Kagan …

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Paul Craig Roberts: ObamaCare — and TSA Searching Traffic on Easter Sunday

What is ObamaCare? Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to live in the strange Kafkaesque world that exists today. The US government can assassinate any US citizen that the executive branch thinks could possibly be a “threat” to the US government, or throw the hapless citizen into …

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2012 Reality Sandwich: The Battle for the Soul of the Republic

The Battle for the Soul of the Republic Reality Sandwich, 10 April 2012 Robert David Steele Vivas The National Security Agency (NSA) mega-data center, combined with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) special relationship with Google, and the federalization of local police using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds to pay for monitoring both the locations …

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Mini-Me: Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter

Huh? Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter A Twitter analytics company that said it detected Osama bin Laden’s death before it was reported by the news media has signed a partnership with Twitter, and is expanding the availability of its service for notifying financial firms and government clients of highly unusual events. …

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Winston Wheeler: Lies, Damn Lies, & Panetta-Pentagon Criminal Insanity

Cost growth in the last year in DOD’s acquisition system was $74 billion, 34 percent more than the $55 billion presumed to occur in the sequester in January; while the time frames are different (see discussion below), so much for Secretary of Defense Panetta’s asinine rhetoric that sequester would be a “Doomsday.” Analysis of two recent acquisition reports …

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Patrick Meier: Does the Humanitarian Industry Have a Future in The Digital Age?

Does the Humanitarian Industry Have a Future in The Digital Age? I recently had the distinct honor of being on the opening plenary of the 2012 Skoll World Forum in Oxford. The panel, “Innovation in Times of Flux: Opportunities on the Heels of Crisis” was moderated by Judith Rodin, CEO of the Rockefeller Foundation. I’ve spent the …

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