Archive for the 'War' Category
Jim Harper, in an attempt to plug all the holes in his argument that AT&T’s censorship of seven or eight bands is unimportant makes the interesting discovery that it is impossible to ever discuss censored speech. You see, if we are talking about it, it obviously hasn’t been censored(!?) How can I argue [...]
John Robb’s book Brave New War is out, for awhile now, and I’ve just read some excerpts and reviews. I have every expectation that it is an excellent book, but of course I do have to read it first. I had enjoyed being a frequent commentator over at Global Guerillas and I enjoyed [...]
Since it’s Memorial Day, I thought it would be good to do a post on the military, and how they are or aren’t reacting to global warming. There hasn’t been a lot of action, but there is every indication that that’s about to change. An interesting study, National Security and the Threat of [...]
A story in The Scientist by Katherine Eban about the woefully inadequate disease surveillance efforts in the USA. In particular, the media have started to play their necessary role, as discussed here.
In an earlier discussion I had started over at Freedom to Tinker about the lack of an effective syndromic surveillance system, [...]
Mark C R UK asks, in response to my post Posse Comitatus, Requiescat In Pace:
“But how many functional enemies willing to disperse such agents and have the (alarming) patience to wait for for years before mortality begins?”
And this questions fits right in with the subject of a [...]
Towards Freedom: Bush Moves Towards Martial Law
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President’s ability [...]
An interesting tack that Amartya Sen takes in Development as Freedom is to identify the informational exclusions that different belief systems make. Then, knowing what is excluded, look at both why that belief system makes those informational exclusions and the results of those informational exclusions. In particular, his critique of Libertarianism is [...]
An interesting little video from 1968, in which Noam Chomsky debates William Buckley about the Vietnam War. What struck me is how very civil they both were towards each other, even though they held such different views on a highly divisive issue:
Now flash forward to 2006, and look how the [...]
Well, just a slight ripple in the press, about the lack of preparedness for a bio-terror event, and the glacial pace that the authorities are preparing for such an event is contrasted with the near certainty among those leaders polled that a bio-terror attack is likely within the next 5 years. This [...]
With this quote, Winston Churchill summed up how the next World War would be fought. It’s notable how often he uses the phrase “the minds of men” when describing the future. The Churchill Center had sent me an email describing the number of times this phrase reappears–I believe the number was in the [...]
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