Bioterrorism has been a regular headline grabber since the post 9/11 anthrax attacks in the USA. Even though the idea that a terrorist cell might manufacture old or new nasties got no support from the facts about that attack which eventually emerged (the anthrax strain used came from the US biowar labs at Fort Detrick), [...]
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Bio-terror shock, horror
December 17, 2008Deja vu all over again?
November 27, 2008The future is getting repetitive…
At least, that seems a fair reaction to the 2025 report issued last week by the US National Intelligence Committee. Nothwithstanding the fuss made in much of the serious press, this prospect of a multipolar, interdependent world seemed pretty familiar.
The feeling is reinforced by the security futures report just out from [...]
US future intelligence
October 7, 2008Nothing like getting your retaliation in first… Entertaining US lefty commentator Tom Engelhardt (who I recall meeting at Pantheon books way back in the ’80s) has an entertaining pre-emptive demolition of the US National Intelligence Council’s next Global Trends assessment, apparently due for release in December.
He reviews what was in previous editions, and concludes that, [...]
Colonising the future
January 17, 2008I suppose they need to be professional pessimists, in some sense, but any historical look at futures studies quickly reminds one how much of the activity has been dictated and/or funded by the (mostly US) military and allied outfits.
The extent to which is still the case is well described in a post last year on [...]
