Stephen E. Arnold: Seismic Shift in Learning from Reading to Video — Implications for Search and More… PBI Push Books versus Pull Video!

Why Video Is Booming I read “The Average College Freshman Reads at 7th Grade Level.” I find this fascinating. No wonder folks are baffled when it comes to framing a query using Boolean logic. Little wonder that youthful search “experts” are clueless about the antics of search vendors from the 1980s. These folks cannot and …

Review (Guest): The American Deep State – Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on US Democracy

Peter Dale Scott 5 Star  Connecting the Dots By The Peripatetic Reader on December 13, 2014 Peter Dale Scott has written many books about the Deep State at work in the U.S. government. Scott depicts American society as structurally and inherently schizophrenic. Just as there is the public government and the deep government, and ordinary …

SchwartzReport: Surveillance State — Good, Bad, Ugly

Here is what the American Surveillance State looks like (publicly) to Europe. This is a German assessment published in one of Europe’s leading publications. I confess I don’t like my country being thought of in this way. Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security EXTRACTS

James Fallows: Chickenhawk Nation

The Tragedy of the American Military The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.