Obama has cast us into another expansion of our wars, assuming COIN theory shows the path to victory. But the basics of COIN have received astonishingly little analysis. Note for example the paucity of critical review of Kilcullen’s works. ...
Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with 7 sections of hot news. Lot’s happening in the world today, mostly either overlooked or misinterpreted by the mainstream media.
Links to interesting news and analysis
Another disproof to...
An ongoing series at the FM website describes how we’re ignorant because we read the newspapers. Today’s example comes from USA Today: ”Americans’ tax burden is lightest in developed world“, 25 November 2009 — Excerpt:
You’d never know it from...
Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom, with 7 sections of hot news. Lot’s happening in the world today, mostly either overlooked or misinterpreted by the mainstream media.
Links to interesting news and analysis
Ignore the b.s....
Much of the commentary about the financial crisis in the general media is little more than superstition – recommendations like the 14th century efforts to control the Plague by killing dogs (which, of course, made it worse).
Here are two excerpts...
