Berlin Wall: From Europe Whole And Free To New World Order

(The Intelligence Daily) -- “When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, NATO was an Alliance of 16 members and no partners. Today, NATO has 26 members – with 2 new invitees, prospective membership for others, and over 20 partners in Europe and Eurasia, seven in the Mediterranean, four in the Persian Gulf, and others from around the world. “NATO matched the Partnership for Peace with the establishment of the Mediterranean Dialogue, and…NATO realized the need to reach out to new partners around the world….This included...

Foreign Contributions and the Supreme's Overdue Decision on Campaign Funding

(The Intelligence Daily) -- The Supreme Court of the United States will soon announce a major decision on our lightly controlled system of campaign funding. Will it retain some limitations on...

Harnessing Hippogriffs: To Regulate or Not To Regulate

(The Intelligence Daily) -- One of the more interesting aspects of writing these essays is that I can never predict in advance what will get me a flurry of outraged responses each week. It’s...

800,000 Americans Busted Annually For Pot

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and State prisons---but the public is starting to...

Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism

Today's major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth. It's misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as...

Computer hackers cause major blackouts in Brazil

An official with Brazil's electricity regulator has confirmed that large scale blackouts in 2005 and 2007 were caused by people hacking into the computers that control the electricity grid.Read more

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