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The Committee To Save The World

The story of Obama’s “Inside Man” and the context of the financial crisis, through decades of Washington policy.

How Do Committees Invent?

How Do Committees Invent? is a 1968 paper by Melvin Conway, where he describes a social phenomenon later transliterated into the Conway's Law adage by Fred Brooks in the Mythical Man Month. The essence…

Facism in the USA

A reporter from Reuters once asked Huey (Kingfisher) Long, the demagogic boss of Louisiana, if the US would ever have fascism. “Sure,” he said, “only we'll call it anti-fascism.”

The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement

This is the full text of my submission to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the proposed free trade agreement with the United States. Much of this draws from the precedent set…