DIY Open-Source Intelligence

A look at some tools from the Intelligence Community for gathering and evaluating information.

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How Marketable is a Liberal Arts Degree, Really?

By Sheldon Greaves It’s something we all heard in graduate school, those of us who were in some kind of humanities or liberal arts program: employers love liberal arts graduates. They are looking for people who can communicate, express themselves … Continue reading

Why Americans Should Care About Mueller’s Counterintelligence Probe—Aside from any Criminal or Political Implications

Editor’s Note: What most Americans don’t quite grasp about the Mueller investigation is that it is a counterintelligence investigation. It is directed at uncovering and removing a hostile foreign asset in our government. This is a difficult concept to wrap … Continue reading

What Everyone Is Missing About the New Climate Change Report

By Sheldon Greaves With the release last Friday of the Fourth National Climate Assessment came Trump’s predictable denial of the science behind it, and the equally predictable (and justifiable) exasperation expressed by anyone with even a moderate knowledge of the … Continue reading

A Quick Note: Immigration and the Stranger at Your Gates

By Sheldon It is not much of an exaggeration to note that the current immigration crisis in which children, even infants, are being stripped away from their parents whose crime is only seeking asylum, is one of the darker chapters … Continue reading

Reviving Higher Education: What I Learned by Building a University

by Sheldon Greaves There have been several excellent posts on the net recently about the problems facing higher education, and some of the reasons why things have deteriorated. Debra Leigh Scott’s excellent summary, “How The American University was Killed, in … Continue reading

Fox News Prepared the Battlefield for Russia’s Propaganda War

Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov

By Sheldon Greaves Edited with additional links and for clarity, 02 Oct. 2017. Each week brings more details (also here) about the tremendous scope and sophistication of Russian efforts to hijack (“meddle” is far too gentle a term by this point) the U.S. 2016 … Continue reading