Stephen E. Arnold: Dark Web Notebook — Core Reference

Stephen E Arnold: Dark Web Use Expected to Increase Author predicts filtering and other restrictions on the open Internet will push more users toward secret encrypted platforms Despite stepped-up efforts by federal and local law enforcement agencies, the Dark Web and the contraband markets that thrive there will continue to grow in the coming years. …

Vincent Stewart: DIA Is Irrelevant (and Dysfunctional)

DIA Chief Fears Agency Becoming Irrelevant The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency likened his own organization to the film company Kodak after it declared bankruptcy for failing to change with the times. In a June 7 speech seemingly aimed at his workforce of some 16,000 personnel, Marine Corps Gen. Vincent R. Stewart said, “We …

ANSWERS by Robert Steele for Joseph Cotto, San Francisco Review of Books

The San Francisco Review of Books is about to start posting some of Robert Steele’s 2000+ non-fiction reviews for Amazon (all available free online in both lists and by each of 98 categories at Phi Beta Iota / Reviews).  Here are some answers he offered to our questions in five short postings: As Published: 01 …

Stephen E. Arnold: Steve Ballmer Does Good — USAFacts

USAFacts Centralizes Access to Data on Government Spending Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s recent project was inspired by his wife, Connie, who wished him to practice more philanthropy. Wouldn’t it help to know what our government is already doing  with its (our) money, he wondered? Out of this question has sprung USAFacts, a website that …

Robert Steele: Trip Report – Could Norway Broker World Peace?

Trip Report: Could Norway Broker World Peace? Defence and Intelligence Norway, 27 April 2017 I came to Norway to stir the pot on several critical topics, including what role the Norwegian government might play in helping Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin agree to wage peace when they meet privately in Hamburg in July 2017; and …