Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)

EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed. Dear IARPA staff- The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s …

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Government Secret Intelligence

Updated 22 July 2019 SHORTCUT: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Spy-Reviews A fraction–the most relevant, from Intelligence (Government/Secret)  (408).  Does not include Information Operations (154), Information Society (247), Information Technology (118), or Misinformation & Propaganda (242). Does not include Intelligence (Collective & Quantum) (114), Intelligence (Commercial) (90), Intelligence (Extra-Terrestrial) (24), Intelligence (Public) (326), Intelligence (Spiritual) (6), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks) …

Chuck Spinney: What Caused the Fukushima Meltdowns?

The Tsunami or the Earthquake Preceding the Tsunami????? Below is another pathbreaking report in Counterpunch on the Fukushima question.  Fukushima may be off the front pages, but the catastrophe is still generating serious questions with profound ramifications.  In a few days, I will forward another blaster will showing how the some of these ramifications this …

Review (Guest): The Long Twentieth Century – Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

Giovanni Arrighi Product Description Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award for Distinguished Scholarship: a comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium. The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long …