Berto Jongman: Kurzweil on Global Networks Must be Redesigned

Missing from all this is the OSC/M4IS2 solution. Global networks must be redesigned May 2, 2013 Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation, which can ultimately result in man-made disasters. For example, today’s quick spreading of emerging epidemics is largely a result of …

Chuck Spinney & Philip Giraldi: The Poisonous (Treasonous?) Influence of the Neo-Cons…Why Isn’t the FBI Going After Them?

While there is little that is new in the attached article by Philip Giraldi; it is nevertheless very important and well worth reading.  Giraldi has produced an excellent summary of the truly poisonous influences on US foreign and defense policies, a group more accurately described by the collective modifier neo-conmen. He describes how the influence of this movement’s …

Todd Gitlin: The US Press — Corrupt & Controlled

Todd Gitlin, who teaches journalism and communications at Columbia University, is the author of The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives, and many other books including, most recently, Occupy Nation:  The Roots, the Spirit, …

Owl: Best Alternative Analysis of Boston Bombing — and Its Opposite

Libertarian pundit Justin Raimondo has written a splendid analysis of the Boston bomber’s overseas and other connections in his column today. The bad news is he makes a convincing case they did indeed have not only Islamic extremist connections but also connections to the Chechen mafia – a very bad mix of especially vile people. …

Search: osint 101/102

The most obvious “set” responding to this is 2002 OSINT 101: Basic Training in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) We are long overdue — a decade overdue — for a complete re-visioning of OSINT as OSC/M4IS2, ideally under the dual sponsorship of NATO, White SOF, and the regional (continental) associations. See Also:

Gordon Duff: Documented Words of Zbigniew Brzezinski on US Funding of Muslim Extremism in Afghanistan to LURE the Soviets In…..[Fast Forward to Chechnya]

The CIA’s “Founding” of Al Qaeda Documented The Muslim Terrorist Apparatus was Created by US Intelligence as a Geopolitical Weapon Le Nouvel Observateur’s Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski Originally published 15-21 January 1998 Translated by Jean Martineau (Editor’s Note:  The following article and interview have been suppressed by Google, now a “black-ops” contractor.  The background on US …

Bojan Radej: Divided we stand

Divided we stand Abstract: Societies have been increasingly disintegrating, despite improving prerequisites for social integration. For Durkheim, the society integrates in a mechanical and in an organic way. Individuals in their interactions gradually habituate new rules. These are institutionalised into system structures and so integrate society mechanically from the bottom up. When new rules are …