David Isenberg: US Taxes Funding Substantial Human Trafficking Schemes by DoD Contractors in War Zones

Some Things Are Just Unacceptable David Isenberg Huffington Post, On March 27 the Technology, Informational Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing, “Labor Abuses, Human Trafficking, and Government Contracts: Is the Government Doing Enough to Protect Vulnerable Workers?” This is a subject of more …

David Isenberg: The Liberty Exhibit & The Iraq We Left Behind

LIBERTY:  PDF 169 pages, released to public after redaction and down-grading from mix of confidential, secret, and top secret. Liberty Exhibit See Also: The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship The Iraq We Left Behind Ned Parker Foreign Affairs, March/April 2012 Nine years after …

David Isenberg: Open Access to Scientific Information

Open Access to Scientific Information By Adrian Janes Source: House of Commons Library (UK) Overview: Open Access (OA) to scientific publications could provide more effective dissemination of research and thus increase its impact. The costs and benefits of different models of providing OA to publications need to be considered if a comprehensive shift to OA …

David Isenberg: Steve Coll Reviews Three Books on Secret American Security State

Our Secret American Security State The New York Review of Books, February 9, 2012 Steve Coll Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin Little, Brown, 296 pp., $27.99 Intelligence and US Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform by Paul R. Pillar Columbia University …

David Isenberg: PMC Oversight? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’….

For the latest on the effectiveness of oversight on private military and security contractors (PMSC) people should take a moment to peruse the hearing of the National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. On December 7 it held a hearing titled “Oversight in Iraq and Afghanistan: …