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This is from Tom Burghardt, a “researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.” He has a pretty interesting article in the Pacific Free Press.
It’s not as if things aren’t bad enough right here on planet earth. What with multiple wars and occupations, an accelerating economic meltdown, corporate malfeasance and environmental catastrophes such [...]

The 2010 version of the Schriever Wargame series–Schriever X, which is actually the sixth iteration, but I quibble–is on, and I am present with uberprofessor Mike Pavelec. Fabulous Las Vegas will have to wait, because this game is for real.
Look for my after action report in a couple of weeks:
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – The Space [...]

I have been out and about, speaking on space and various subjects, and so apologize for the lack of updates (again).
If you are not familiar with the e-Parliament, you should take a look. The organization is doing some great work by connecting national-level elected legislators from around the world (more than 15,000 are now connected on [...]

The following is the keynote presentation I delivered recently to the National Security Space Center’s Space Education Symposium: 
A couple of months ago, I accompanied most of my colleagues at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies on a tour of Air Force Space Command at Peterson and Schriever Air Force Bases in beautiful Colorado [...]

John Hickman’s criticism of the failed Outer Space Treaty article is reverberating (see Eros Pace’s post below) through the blogosphere. An earlier, perhaps less well-crafted essay co-authored by John and myself appeared as “Resurrecting the Space Age: A State-Centered Commentary on the Outer Space Regime,” in Comparative Strategy 21 (Winter) 2002: 1-45. Here is an [...]

  Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (Metropolitan Books, 2007) p. 215:

The Air Force, however, has an answer to such thinking. Everett Dolman, a neoconservative and a professor in the school of Advanced Air and Space Studies, the air force’s graduate school for airpower and space power strategists at Maxwell Air [...]