The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I am honored that Eva Waskell has entrusted me to present The Privatization of Our Democracy, a work that I regard as her Profile in Courage. For 25 years she has labored to correct what is possibly the most significant public policy failure of the computer age—the privatization of vote counting carried out under the …
Just as the leaders of US national security thinking led America into the war in Iraq based on the false premise of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction and reckless, but politically powerful, rhetoric, Washington’s elite are now circling the wagons around the defense budget. They are using the same disingenuous tactics and the same kind …
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Pogo reigns supreme….. Pentagon Will Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War By DAVID E. SANGER and ELISABETH BUMILLER New York Times, May 31, 2011 WASHINGTON — The Pentagon, trying to create a formal strategy to deter cyberattacks on the United States, plans to issue a new strategy soon declaring that a computer attack from a foreign …
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The discussion of corruption–and the urgency of reasserting integrity–permeates this website. Here are a general comment and a few links. General comment: Corruption consists of a lack of integrity, which in turn is not just about dishonesty, but about a failure to achieve transparency, truth, trust, and accurate feedback loops. The cost of corruption, calculated …
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Andrew Cockburn’s essay in The Pentagon Labyrinth is titled “Follow the Money.” There are a lot of people who will say that is an undignified way to assess America’s national security apparatus; they might even say that Cockburn’s focus is cynical. I would personally venture to guess that a disproportionate number of those saying so are …
Corruption works better, or Graphic: Corruption. Graphic: Corruption Slide 1 Nine Zones of Concern Graphic: Corruption Slide 2 Empire as Terrorism Graphic: Corruption Slide 3 Holistic Analysis There is also the category in the directory: JOURNAL: Corruption (280) REVIEWS: Corruption (125) See Also (Review: Corruption):
Around 60 countries worldwide are viewed as “systemically corrupt,” and with globalization multiplying the avenues by which corrupt practices cross borders and span the globe, experts are debating the nature of corruption and how to stop it. By Robert Coalson for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) ISN ETH Zurich 10 December 2010 EXTRACT: Systemic corruption …
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