07-01-2013 | June's Best

State of the Arts - a roundup of eye-popping surveillance tech.

Improbable Lives - wiki bios that read like highly abridged novels.

The Unforgiven - a meditation on the Left Hand Path of National Security.

Doolittle's War - a strongly worded paragraph that set the American Empire over the edge.

Fun Times - a collection of highly entertaining histories of Temporary Autonomous Zones.

The Owls - a tribute to the darker side of Twin Peaks.

05-26-2013 | Archive Mining

06-10-2012 | The Governing Class

05-19-2012 | Pathology of Power

04-23-2013 | Vladislav's Masterpiece

10-03-2011 | Espionage Mechanics

09-07-2011 | Scientific Persuasion

02-28-2013 | Month End

February: short, cold, pointless. Nonetheless, also extremely productive and educational, although 'tis wise to be wary in the Year of the Snake. Take your profits, celebrate your victories and get your books in order for the Long March. What follows is a selection of February's best brainfood...

The Mythology of Moore's Law - IEEE Spectrum

PDF: Global Risks 2013 - World Economic Forum

Why Employment in the US Isn't Coming Back -- CHS

The Class Domination Theory of Power - William Domhoff

The Myth of American Meritocracy - Ron Unz

Average Mutants - being a roundup of spectacular specimens of Kali Yuga adaptation

Neuroplasticity and the Enrichment of Weightlessness - Star Larvae

Kurt Bardella's Beltway Lessons - great Realpolitik from Darell Issa's hedge fund / spook aide Bardella

11-11-2011 | Best of #Occupy

TACTICAL | On the "How":

The Real Threat to #Occupy is the Boredom of Consensus - Michael Albert

#Occupy Wall Street and New Models of Social Engineering - Chris Arkenberg

How the Occupy Movement is Dealing With the Homeless - KomoNews

A Prehistory of the #Occupy Movement - AmpedStatus

An Even More Comprehensive History of #Occupy - Public Secrets

Monumental: The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Superempowered Individuals - Kevin Carson

Chaos Theory and Nonviolence: A trainer's report on WTO, IMF and World Bank protests - Betsy Raasch-Gilman

The Principle of Non-Contradiction - Lawrence Lessig

The China - #Occupy Connection - The Atlantic

What 'Diversity of Tactics' Really Means for #Occupy Wall Street - Nathan Schneider

The Darknet Plan: Netroots Activists Dream of a Global Mesh Network - Ars Tech

10 Things Christians Should Know (and Do) About the "Occupy" Protests - Pantheos

#Occupy and America's Growing Anti-Intellectualism - Al-Jazeera

The Triple Revolution Memorandum - Wikipedia

FACTUAL | On the "Why":

How the Banks CDO Self-Dealing Amplified the Financial Crisis - ProPublica

Net Worth of Congress up 25% in Two Years - Roll Call

#Occupy Wall Street and War Against the Poor - Mother Jones

50% of All Workers Made Less Than $26,000 in 2010 - The Atlantic

Stunningly Detailed Rundown on Debt as Money - George Washington

Death LULZ: Wall Street Has Earned More in 2 1/2 Years of Barack Obama Than They Did in 8 Years of George W. Bush - WaPo

"Life After Debt" - Why Was This Government Report Kept Secret? - NPR

Hibernian Express: $300 million and 3,741 miles for 6 Milliseconds of HFT - Telegraph

"Permanent Underclass" - Most US Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits - AP

Who Contributed to the Financial Crisis -- And Where Are They Now? - ProPublica Investigation

Why Are the Big Banks Getting Off? - Glenn Greenwald

The End of the Wall Street Boom - Michael Lewis

Out of Control: The Destructive Power of Financial Markets - Der Speigel

2006: Complicity and Advance Knowledge in the US Intelligence Community - Businessweek

Best of September

We Are the Monsters We've Been Waiting For - Jeff Wells

How JP Morgan Created the Whole Damn Nation of Panama - Common Dreams

Measurement Dysfunction: Why Capitalism is Trapped in a Race to the Bottom - Chip Overclock

The Psychophysics of Brain Rhythms - Frontiers in Perception Science

FOIA Gold: The FBI's 191 Page Release re: Westboro Baptist Church and Fred Phelps - Historiographic Anarchy

Operation Urban Blight: The Military Objectives of City Planning - Harold Henderson

Why I Help The Man...And You Should, Too - Matthew Burton

Who Were the Witches? Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of Capitalism - EOC

PR Operative Wendell Potter Comes Clean - Amazing Interview - Guernica

Hibernian Express: $300 million and 3,741 miles for 6 Milliseconds of HFT - Telegraph

Smile Until It Hurts: The Strange Saga of "Up With People" - Failure Mag

The Triple Revolution Memorandum - Wikipedia

Roger Ailes Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News - Gawker



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