The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Is it possible to identify the 500 most powerful individuals on the planet — one in 14 million? That’s what we tried to do with the inaugural FP Power Map, our inventory of the people who control the commanding heights of the industries that run the world, from politics to high finance, media to energy, …
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Looking Forward, Looking Behind The Democratic Study Group was a 150 staff member legislative service organization(LSO) that had as customers all of the Democratic members of Congress and a good number of Republicans. This internal think tank analyzed policy proposals, serving as an in-house ‘brain’ for Congress. The “Republican Revolution” of 1994 would lead to the …
The Seven Sins of American Foreign Policy Loch Johnson and Kiki Caruson PSOnlone (January 2003) PDF 6 Pages (slow loading) 1. Ignorance. 2. Lack of Empathy 3. Isolationalism 4. Unilateralism 5. Precipitate Military Action 6. Presidential Imperialism 7. Arrogance Phi Beta Iota: The above are resorted and expanded in Loch Johnson (2006), Seven Sins of …
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UPDATED 30 Jan 2013: Mini-Me: LBJ Behind USS Liberty? Re-Evaluating What Can Be Known Jewish Leaders Meet Obama, Apologize for USS Liberty BNN Senior Producer Karl Reich, 23 January 2013 Washington (BNN) – Leaders of several major American Jewish organizations met today with President Barack Obama and his national security team, offering abject apologies for …
Short Persistent URL: http://tinyurl.com/Kerry-Flournoy I wrote this with John Kerry and Michele Flourney in mind, but regardless of who is eventually made Secretary of Defense, the core concept remains: the center of gravity for massive change in the US Government and in the nature of how the US Government ineracts with the rest of the …
ForeignPolicy.com, August 2, 2012 Thought Cloud The real problem with the civilian-military gap. By Rosa Brooks One of the biggest misunderstandings about the civilian-military gap is that it is cultural — the national security version of the red state-blue state divide. But the distance between those in and out of uniform isn’t fundamentally a matter …
Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement, by Dr. Douglas M. Johnston, president and founder, International Center for Religion and Diplomacy Date & Time: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. How should the United States deal with the jihadist challenge and other religious imperatives that permeate today’s …
