Chuck Spinney: Manufacturing Dissent – The Rise of the Tea Party as an Elite Front – Opposite of OWS

Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch.  DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …

Mini-Me: Assassination – Made in America – At What Cost? Impeachable Treason.

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality Without a shred of due process, far from any battlefield, President Obama succeeds in killing Anwar al-Awlaki Glenn Greenwald Salon, 30 September 2011 The US Assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki and the Blurring of Bright Lines E. D. Kain Forbes, 30 September 2011 The Obama administration has …

DefDog: PSYOP Reading List for Citizens

FYI……some good insight…..it is in the very fabric of society…. Towards a Psychological Operations Reading List Skilluminati Research, 7 September 2011 Defining Psychological Operations is straightforward enough, but determining where exactly it ends is extremely tricky. The US Department of Defense has infiltrated institutions around the world, they expend billions every year on domestic and …

Paul Fernhout: How Security Clearance Process Harms National Security by Eradicating Cognitive Diversity

This essay discusses how the USA’s security clearance process (mainly related to ensuring secrecy) may have a counter-productive negative effect on the USA’s national security by reducing “cognitive diversity” among security professionals. Background refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy Scott Page wrote an insightful book about the value of “cognitive diversity” in making effective groups, called The Difference: …