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Next week CTLab in it’s slick, officially rolled-out, version kicks off it’s new iteration by hosting an online symposium on the Hamdan trial ( note, this is not the SCOTUS decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld – though I’m certain that case is also fair game for discussion –  but instead Hamdan’s subsequent trial by military tribunal).

Social Science In War / Online Symposium

“CTlab member Brian Glyn Williams, PhD, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, recently testified as an expert witness for the defence in the trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, “Bin Laden’s Driver”, in the first US military tribunal since World War II…

…On 22 September 2008, CTlab will launch an online symposium on the scholarly and substantive implications of the Hamdan trial. Dr. Williams has drafted an original, narrative account of his experience, and is making it available for discussion through the CTlab weblog. It will be released for public consumption, followed by comments and observations from a panel of invited legal scholars and social scientists based in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.”

I’ll put in my two cents regarding the symposium and Hamdan after the conclusion.

Top Billing! Presentation Zen – John McCain’s background visuals and Obama delivers speech like a symphony

Garr Reynolds analyzes the visual and staging  atmospherics and structural presentations ( not the content) of the convention acceptance speeches and makes suggestions for improvement.

Wizards of Oz – LHC: Game On!

After the U.S. Congress moronically killed off the half-finished Superconducting Super Collider in the 90’s to save a few billion that they promptly spent filling in the giant tunnel again, the LHC represents the largest experimental step forward in investigating particle physics that we are likely to see for years.

Valdis Krebs –  How do good practices spread and become transformative?

Michael Scheuer – Playing With Fire: Pakistan’s Unintended Strategic Challenge in India’s Homeland

Claremont Institute – There He Goes Again: A Review of The Age of Reagan

Foreign Policy –Seven Questions: Reading the Tea Leaves in Pyongyang

That’s it!

Check this out.  Points to several new books for the pile.

Michael Tanji sums up his views on the recent DNI OSINT conference that he and other blogfriends attended in Washington, DC.

Official DNI OSINT blog can also be consulted ( hat tip to Suki Fuller)

Today we are not Democrats or Republicans, conservatives or liberals but Americans. Let us remember what was lost today seven years ago but also look forward, with hope and confidence, in the future of our country.