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Economy, Flashpoints, GeoPolitics, Interview, Powerplay, Public Relations, Sci/Tech, SuperClass February 20, 2012

Vantage Point Interview: James Corbett[Independent Journalist]

Vantage Point Interview: James Corbett[Independent Journalist]

About James:
James Corbett is an independent journalist who has been living and working in Japan since 2004. He has been writing and producing The Corbett Report, an online multi-media news and information source, since 2007. His forthcoming book, Reportage: Essays on the New World Order, will be available for purchase later this year.

Michael Vail and James Corbett discuss geopolitical flashpoints, the psychology of defeatism, and terrorism. We dissect the political discourse and break down the media narratives and false paradigms. We run the gamet in this hour long commercial free interview.

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GeoPolitics, Interview, Military, Resources, Risks, Strategic Interests February 10, 2012

Interview with Thomas P.M. Barnett: Military Strategist and Best Selling Author

Interview with Thomas P.M. Barnett: Military Strategist and Best Selling Author

Thomas P.M. Barnett is a strategic planner who has worked in national security affairs since the end of the Cold War. In 2010, Tom became Chief Analyst for the New York/Tel Aviv/Sidney online consultancy, Wikistrat. He has also operated his own consulting practice (Barnett Consulting LLC) since 1998.

A New York Times-bestselling author and a nationally-known public speaker who’s been profiled on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Barnett is in high demand within government circles as a forecaster of global conflict and an expert of globalization, as well as within corporate circles as a management consultant and conference presenter.

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Interview, Soft Power, Uprising November 9, 2011

Interview with Gene Sharp: The Machiavelli of Nonviolent struggle

Interview with Gene Sharp: The Machiavelli of Nonviolent struggle

IT’S not easy being considered the Machiavelli of nonviolence. But Gene Sharp relishes his role. For nearly 40 years — ever since the ashes of Hiroshima and the Holocaust left an impression on him as an undergraduate at Ohio State University — Dr. Sharp has probed alternatives to violence. Today, as director of Harvard University’s Program on Nonviolent Sanctions, the soft-spoken scholar is considered one of the world’s leading proponents of nonviolent struggle.

And like Renaissance statesman Niccolo Machiavelli, Sharp is a pragmatist. Almost obsessively so.

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