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Attack of Shadows: Galaxy's Edge #4 Book Review

Attack of Shadows: Galaxy's Edge #4 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Kindle Edition, 340 pages Published September 14th 2017 by Galaxy's Edge ASIN B07541JBYS That, was intense. I keep being surprised by the storytelling of Cole and Anspach. This volume in the Galaxy's

Kill Team: Galaxy's Edge #3 Book Review

Kill Team: Galaxy's Edge #3 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Kindle Edition, 336 pages Published August 13th 2017 by Galaxy's Edge ASIN B073WQN9KM Kill Team brings us back to where we started in the Galaxy's Edge series: highly trained military professionals who get

The Long View: Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey

John mentions the Rosenbergs in passing here, citing a book by Ron Radosh. I knew that the Venona transcripts had decisively identified the Rosenbergs as Soviet spies in 1995, Radosh put the pieces together without classified information in 1983. Well done. John also mentions other former Leftist radicals like Eldridge

The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914 — 1922 Book Review

The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914 — 1922 by Jamie Bisher McFarland and Company, 2016 $29.95; 358 pages ISBN 9780786433506 I received this book for free as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. I requested this book because I find the subject of espionage interesting, and because the

The Long View 2004-07-26: Spies & Pigeons, Catholic Tradition, Catholic Muslims, Pre-Fab Politics

Ordinarily, I would trust John's judgment on a matter of legal interpretation, but I do wonder whether his opinion on the Valerie Plame affair was unbiased. We don't have a legal decision to look back on, since the courts declined to take up the charge, although

LinkFest 2015-12-21

Where America Gets its Winter Lettuce + Lettuce Produces More Greenhouse Gas Emissions than Bacon Does The vast fields of lettuce in Yuma, in all places, are almost enough to drive me to despair. Almost. Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s University But Don’

The Long View: If the Loyalists Had Won the Spanish Civil War

Here the first of three essays by John on the Spanish Civil War, covering both the history, and the alternative history of an in-edifying episode in a terrible century. That war was was the trial run for World War II, and perhaps in a way even the Cold War. In