Mini-Me: Empire Flames on the Edges, Loses the Backyard

Huh? Latin America to be Innovative in Rio+20 Prensa Latina, 2 April 2012 Quito, Apr 2 (Prensa Latina) Latin America is the only region with capacity to propose innovative initiatives at the World Conference on Sustainable Development Río+20 in the context of today’s global crisis, said Mario Ruales, advisor for Environmental Affairs. Ruales told Prensa …

Patrick Meier: On Rumors, Repression and Digital Disruption in China: Opening Pandora’s Inbox of Truthiness?

On Rumors, Repression and Digital Disruption in China: Opening Pandora’s Inbox of Truthiness? The Economist recently published a brilliant piece on China entitled: “The Power of Microblogs: Zombie Followers and Fake Re-Tweets.” BBC News followed with an equally excellent article: “Damaging Coup Rumors Ricochet Across China.” Combined, these articles reveal just how profound the digital disruption …

Chuck Spinney: Cancer of Careerism – Final Word on Colin Powell’s Moral Suicide

There is not much new here, other than Curveball’s public admission, but note Colonel Wilkerson’s comment below.  One the one hand, Wilkerson admits he was a party to the “sexed up” intelligence; on the other, he wants us to believe Powell (and by extension himself) was being used.  Given that “Curveball” was suspected of being …

Mini-Me: Toulouse Terrorist Worked for French Intelligence

Huh? Intel ‘Sources’ Claim Toulouse Terrorist Worked for French Intelligence Milan IL FOGLIO.it in Italian 23 Mar 12 [Report by Daniele Raineri: “The French Al-Qa’ida Murderer Is an Intelligence Operation That Went Wrong”] The young French Al-Qa’ida member who has been slaying soldiers and Jews in the Toulouse area was a French intelligence services operation …

DefDog: Delusions of Power – Absolute Corruption of US Power

Corruption infects our world in many forms: material and moral, visible and invisible, direct and indirect. But the underlying motive behind all things corrupt is a strong opportunistic instinct to benefit oneself at the cost of others by allurement or deception. No wonder politics has fallen so much into disrepute. The aphorism of the nineteenth-century …