On AlterNet: intelligence

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Conservatism Thrives on Low Intelligence and Poor Information

George Monbiot, The Guardian. February 12, 2012.

There is plenty of research showing that low general intelligence in childhood predicts greater prejudice towards people of different ethnicity or sexuality in adulthood.

IQ Blackout: Why Did Studying Intelligence Become Taboo?

Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. November 2, 2011.

Somewhere along the way, the very idea of intelligence became politicized. An IQ blackout descended.

Inside Top Secret America

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. August 28, 2010.

A major investigation reveals the extent of America's vast and heavily privatized military-corporate-intelligence establishment.

How Republicans Ruined the Intelligence Community

Steven D., Booman Tribune. January 7, 2010.

A senior Republican in Congress actually admitted that the reforms to our intelligence community which he "helped devise" may have made things worse.

How Israeli Intelligence Fabricated a Frequently-Repeated Myth to Justify Tel Aviv's Aggression

Ira Chernus, Foreign Policy in Focus. January 14, 2009.

Israeli intelligence concluded after Camp David that Yassir Arafat was willing to follow the Oslo process -- but that's not what they told lawmakers.

Liberal Bloggers Keep Torture Supporter Brennan Out of the CIA

ZP Heller, AlterNet. November 26, 2008.

Jane Hamsher and Rachel Maddow talk about yesterday's big news.

Let's Hope the Rumors About Jane Harman in an Obama Admin Aren't Serious

Linda Milazzo, AlterNet. November 11, 2008.

The idea that the author of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act will work with Obama is a scary one.

Broad New Domestic Spying Measures Are Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. August 18, 2008.

In a series of quiet but sweeping measures, the Bush Administration is codifying the government's capacity to spy on its citizens.

How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America

Terrence McNally, AlterNet. August 15, 2008.

Sad but true: Intelligence is a political liability in the US. Author of The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby explains why.

McClellan: White House Officials Blocked Intelligence Report, â€˜Continue To Bury Their Heads In The Sand'

Ali Frick, ThinkProgress. June 10, 2008.

More revelations a day late and a dollar short from McClellan.

Are Men Smarter Than Women? They Sure Seem to Think So

Jeff Fecke, Shakesville. January 28, 2008.

A new study says that men over-estimate their own intelligence and under-estimate the intelligence of women.

Intelligence Lessons From Vietnam and Iraq

Ray McGovern, Consortium News. January 27, 2008.

How can our president speak so glibly about 10 more years in Iraq? Doesn't he know anything about Vietnam?

Top Rumsfeld Aide Gets Cushy Contract From Spy Agency He Created

Tim Shorrock, CorpWatch. January 18, 2008.

Steven Cambone, an advocate of torture who was briefly sought for war crimes by German prosecutors, is raking it in.

Curveball: The Iraqi Defector the Bush Team Used to Sell the War

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 22, 2007.

A interview with the author of a new book on the Iraqi defector code-named "Curveball," whose made-up intelligence on Saddam's WMD programs was central to the Bush Administration's case for invasion.