Industrialization is spreading everywhere, but at varying rates of rapidity and with disparate consequences. As in the past, societies are developing in widely different directions.

To understand today's globalization requires that one renounce the idea that the poor are stunted or exploited by globalization. The poor of the world are not so much exploited as neglected and forgotten. At the same time the press and television are drenching them with images of the riches they lack. For the poor, globalization is not an accomplished fact but a condition that remains to be achieved. The irony of the current phase of globalization is that it universalizes the demand for a better life without providing the means to satisfy it.

The Global Delusion

When, less than a decade ago, the Internet emerged as a force in most of our lives, one of the questions people often asked was: Would it prove, like TV, to be a medium mainly for distraction and disengagement? Or would its two-way nature allow it to be a potent instrument for rebuilding connections among people and organizations, possibly even renewing a sense of community? The answer is still not clear— more people use the Web to look at unclothed young women and lose money at poker than for any other purposes. But if you were going to make a case for the Web having an invigorating political effect, you could do worse than point your browser to dailykos.com, which was launched in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas Zúniga.

The Hope of the Web

The Open Source Information System (OSIS) is the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) SBU/FOUO/LES network for cross-community collaboration and sharing of intelligence and terrorism information with partners within the Intelligence, Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Diplomatic Communities.

OSIS is the accredited global DNI network managed by the DNI-CIO / Intelink Management Office (IMO).

Open Source Information System (OSIS)

InfoChess OnLine is an engaging game of strategy and deceit that has captured the interest of some of the most prestigious strategists, tacticians, negotiators, creative thinkers and gamers throughout the United States and abroad.

Automating our popular board game of InfoChess�, ManTech's National Security Solutions Group has taken the ancient wargame of chess to new levels. InfoChess� OnLine now uses the exciting nature of online gaming to deliver an informative and exciting learning experience.

InfoChess OnLine

Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies on 3 April 2006, Secretary of State for Defence John Reid emphasised changes to the strategic landscape as part of a series of speeches he has given in recent weeks about new security challenges.

Defence Internet | Defence News | Reid addresses RUSI

In an important speech delivered Monday in London, the British Defense Minister John Reid suggested that we consider revising the Geneva Conventions regarding conduct in war. He wants to accommodate the altered reality of modern terrorism. "I believe we need now to consider whether we--the international community in its widest sense--need to re-examine these conventions," Mr. Reid said. "If we do not, we risk continuing to fight a 21st-century conflict with 20th-century rules." The Geneva Conventions were shaped 50 years ago, Mr. Reid said, but "warfare continues to evolve, and, in its moral dimensions, we have now to cope with a deliberate regression towards barbaric terrorism by our opponents."

Twentieth-century rules will not win a 21st-century war.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has claimed reports that its senior staffers let slip how much the company plans to charge for the PlayStation 3 when the console ships next November are "incorrect".

Sony claims PS3 pricing leak 'incorrect'

the personality differences between Democrats and Republicans are minimal, even if their opinions are sometimes polar opposites. They are all subspecies of "nerd."

"self-absorbed" — children became liberals, and whiners went to the right.

Two Species of Nerd

The meeting began with Jimmy Carter's announcement: “Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am seriously considering an attempt to rescue the hostages.”

The Desert One Debacle

An investigation into the ethics of AIDS drug testing, the reality of AIDS in Africa, and the corruption of AIDS science.

Out of Control