Category: Books
03/09/10
Israel, suffering under the weight of Shoah Shock Syndrome launches another round of attacks on Gaza—instead of seeking treatment for its mental illness, Israel is infecting future generations with the mental illness.In between Gaza rocket fire and reciprocating bombings1, Israel's leadership and Israelis might want to read Avraham Burg's new book more »
03/08/10
10:32:11 am by misblog, Categories: Books, Net Neutrality, Censorship, Internet , Tags: books, hr 275, internet censorship, internet surveillance, oni, open net initiative The Open Net Initiative (ONI) has consolidated five years of nation-state Internet censorship and surveillance research into a recently published book, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.Access Denied significantly ad… more »
03/06/10
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, This Time Is Different, 2009 is a very readable public good that should be on the required reading list of every American graduate school’s first year macroeconomic and econometrics classes.Our markets took fals… more »
03/03/10
You are the only one insuring the risk; The risk taking requires opaqueness or secrecy; You hedge against the risk you create and are selling to others; You think the more variables a model has the better it predicts risk; An advanced degree… more »
02/27/10
Another horror (or whore depending on your perspective) from King Bush the Idiot's experimental use of the cannibal capitalist's1, unregulated markets, and the private option to fight the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles.ProPublic's excellent series, Di… more »
02/22/10
Investigative journalist Steven Grey, in his new book Ghost Plane tells the story of how he and other investigative journalists penetrated the CIA’s tragic rendition and torture program. A program consisting of 26 airplanes, hidden behind 5 CIA front com… more »
02/05/10
01/26/10
As the debacle1 of Iraq crashes in on America many are asking and re-asking how this disaster got started?The Secret Way to War (2006) revisits our march to war in Iraq beginning shortly after September 11, 2001. In this short monograph2, Berkeley jo… more »
01/07/10
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's response to the current mortgage crisis was torn from the pages of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism… more »
12/08/09
Bob Dorgin’s new book Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War, Random House, 2007 furthers our understanding of how Curveball’s1 data were used, misused, and manipulated by our Executive to mislead both Congress and the public. Howev… more »
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