Articles

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century by Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud
The disintegration of the USSR is inextricably entwined and intimately related to the life and times, failures and accomplishments, paradoxes and contradictions of the courageous

Violence, mental illness, and the brain — A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 1 — From trephination to lobotomy
Abstract — Psychosurgery was developed early in human prehistory (trephination) as a need perhaps to alter aberrant behavior and treat mental illness. The “American Crowbar

A critique of psychologist B. F. Skinner’s Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B. F. Skinner (1909-1990) was a prominent professor of psychology at Harvard (1958-1974) and a founder of Operant and Behavioral Psychology. I revisited his work

Fidel and Raúl Castro — Communist Brethren
In his book, After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader, author Brian Latell, a National Intelligence Officer (1990-1994) and the

China — spies, sexpionage, and cyber wars against America
Recently I read the book Tiger Trap (2012) by espionage writer David Wise. It is a scary but at the same time an astounding and

Spies of the Cold War
The Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations by Richard C. S. Trahair was published by Greenwood Press, (Westport, Connecticut) in 2004. It