Some items of interest:
- I've added a search function for Global Guerrillas (below right) as an alternative to the archive. Over five years of content from the first post to sift through (unfortunately, it appears I missed the anniversary of the site).
- Gorilla Designs has come up with something to do with all of those shipping containers left vacant by a depression in global trade. Turn them into homes that can withstand extreme weather.
- California: "A retired truck driver and Vietnam War veteran said Monday that he is forming an armed militia - mostly men with rifles and armbands, four to a car - to patrol Stockton this summer, when at least 43 police officers are to be laid off." "Stockton's violent crime rate is among the highest in the state."
- Article on local currencies in USA Today. Nice quote from Jackie Smith in South Bend Indiana: "It reinforces the message that having more control of the economy in local hands can help you cushion yourself from the blows of the marketplace."
- LA gangs and real-estate fraud.
- CNN. Piracy business models spreading virally from Somalia to Nigeria.
- Jakub Grygiel, an analyst at the Hoover Institution, has adopted a Global Guerrilla approach to foreign policy analysis. In his recent article, "The Power of Statelessness," he does a good job applying the concepts (which should be familiar to readers of Brave New War and this blog). Glad to have him on board.
- Somali pirates take a ship (owned by a US DoD shipping contractor). Crew (20 US) disable ship. Dead in the water, the pirates adapt, take the captain hostage and flee the ship. They negotiate for his release via satellite phone. For small violent groups interested in making a buck, the global economy is just a phone call away.
- Mexico's President Calderon. "There is trafficking in Mexico because there is corruption in Mexico..." "But by the same argument if there is trafficking in the United States it is because there is some corruption in the United States... It is impossible to pass tonnes of cocaine to the United States without the complicity of some American authorities." See interview.