Chuck Spinney: Iraq Army Losing North, Partition Being Discussed

The author of the attached report, Patrick Cockburn, is one of very best reporters reporting on the Middle East, and perhaps the most knowledgeable on Iraq.  This is a very important report, in my opinion. Partition could really have a destabilizing influence on the entire Arab region, but especially Syria, as well as non-Arab Turkey. …

Search: tactical versus strategic intelligence + Meta-RECAP

An important question — the USA no longer does strategic intelligence and it has never done Whole of Government operational or tactical intelligence.  The $60B secret world is largely worthless at all four levels of analysis: STRATEGIC:  Next Generation near, 100 years our far OPERATIONAL:  Whole of Government regional and threat/topic based campaign plans, harmonized …

Review: Ending the Male Leadership Myth – How Women Can Save Us from Destroying Ourselves

Fernando Pargas STUNNINGLY Intelligent, Timely, A Study in Ethics, Business, & Governance, April 20, 2013 I received this book as a gift because I have been telling people for over a decade that the 21st Century is going to be the Century of women, whose compassion, intuition, and smaller egos make them so much superior …

SchwartzReport: USA at Bottom in Child Well Being — and Tops in Military Spending, Imprisonment, Divorce, and Obesity

U.S. Ranks Near Bottom of UNICEF Report on Child Well-being KATIE MCDONOUGH, Assistant Editor – Salon The cliché holds that: Our children are our future. If that is true we don’t have much of a future. We don’t seem to give a damn about our children and, as the UNICEF report makes clear, it shows. …