Category Archives: ideological classrooms
CIA Director overhauls spy agency
CIA Director overhauls spy agency CIA Director John Brennan has ordered a reorganization of the spy agency that will shift its focus from Bush-era counterterrorism back to its traditional Cold War-era intelligence gathering role, the Seattle Times reports. Thousands of … Continue reading
Gen. Petraeus: Too Big to Jail
Gen. Petraeus: Too Big to Jail March 5, 2015 https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/05/gen-petraeus-too-big-to-jail/ Exclusive: While lesser Americans face years in jail for leaking secrets – even to inform fellow citizens of government abuses – retired Gen. David Petraeus gets a misdemeanor wrist-slap for exposing covert officers and … Continue reading
Some Memes and Mimetics From “Indian Country” No. 2
Some Memes and Mimetics From “Indian Country” No. 1
Shades of the CIA: The Chicago PD’s black site
Shades of the CIA: The Chicago PD’s black site The Chicago police admire the CIA so much they’re trying to emulate them. What they like best about the CIA, of course, is their talent for bypassing and nullifying … Continue reading
Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks [and Lying to FBI] By Peter Maass @maassp Tuesday at 2:30 PM Share https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/03/petraeus-plea-deal-reveals-two-tier-justice-system-leaks/ David Petraeus, the former Army general and CIA director, admitted today that he gave highly-classified journals to … Continue reading
Microfoundational cyborg dream and Neoclassical Economics
Microfoundational cyborg dream March 6, 2015 from Lars Syll – Are macro-economists doomed to always “fight the last war”? Are they doomed to always be explaining the last problem we had, even as a completely different problem is building … Continue reading