PACOM Week in Review Ending 9 August 2009

Hot Topics AU: Outlawing al-Shabaab not the answer 08/06/09 BD: BANGLADESHS AMBIVALENT RELATIONS WITH THE PRC 08/04/09 BT: Bharti says to expand cable network to Bhutan 08/04/09 CN: China Investigates Top Nuclear Official 08/06/09 CN: China to surpass US in manufacturing by 2015 on road to Empire 08/04/09 CN: Chinese teen dies at Internet addiction rehab camp 08/06/09 CN: …

Journal: Stronger Signals–Naked Virginia Police Chiefs

+++++++Phi Beta Iota Editorial Comment+++++++ We’ve seen quite a few stupid, abusive policemen–generally in Third World countries, struggling to make a living, treating corruption as a form of life insurance.  What we have not seen ourselves in Virginia, is stupid, abusive police chiefs and ignorant abusive “undercover” officers who go after citizens whose only crime …

Journal: Chuck Spinney Flags Israel’s Use of Economic Strangulation (A Form of Genocide or Other Atrocity)

SANCTIMONEOUS HERESY: Right-wing Israelis demonstrate in Jabal Mukabber after hundreds ransacked the village in occupied East Jerusalem, destroying Palestinian property, March 2008. (Meged Gozani/Activestills) A third uprising? Gary M. Burge,The Electronic Intifada,3 August 2009 Gary M. Burge is professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Chicago. He is author of Whose Land? Whose Promise? …

Journal: Marcus Aurelius Flags Force Protection Blinders

Protection Rackets By Christopher Dickey | Newsweek Web Exclusive Jul 31, 2009 In Afghanistan, Americans should deploy Pvt. Social Worker and Maj. Sociologist. PBI:  The conclusion first: “You have to learn to discriminate if you’re going to win,” said Villalobos. “And in Afghanistan, that’s the problem. You don’t know how to do that. You don’t speak …