Day September 24, 2007

Blackwater and media visibility

From Danger Room, no Blackwater hater, comes Blackwater: From Bad to Worse It’s not too late Blackwater. Re-read Danger Room’s PR advice. Otherwise, I predict that Blackwater will soon be the Enron of Private Security Contractors. There’s lots of companies…

Climate change feedback loop

Global warming melts permafrost. Permafrost releases billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases. Global warming gets a shot in the arm. This is one of many feedback loops we’ll look at over the next weeks.

Those wacky Republican presidential campaign advisors

Giuliani advisor Daniel Pipes advocates collective punishment against Palestinians, something which the Geneva Convention labels as a war crime, while a Romney advisor is a Blackwater USA co-chair, something which certainly helps explain Romney’s deep silence on the recent Blackwater…