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About me

I'm a political moderate and belong to no political party. In fact, I consider such parties detrimental to the proper exercise of democracy: they devolve to insider groups, resistant to change and devoted above all else to their self-preservation. I pay attention to experts but with a skeptical ear. I strive to be kind, honest, and even-handed, but I can be harsh with trolls and partisans of all stripes, so don't be mean. That's about all you need to know about me. Have a nice day.

My Material

Wikimedia Uploads
End Around (submarine tactic)

Sources

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." Immanuel Kant

Wikipedia Library

Internet Archive
Science Direct
National Board of Economic Research (NBER)
BLS Job Creation Data

Wiley Online Library
University of Minnesota Libraries

Not-So-Crappy News (for "those days")

Good News Network
Happy News
The Optimist Daily
Huffington Post Good News Section

Law

"It cannot be presumed that any clause in the constitution is intended to be without effect; and, therefore, such a construction is inadmissible, unless the words require it." - Marbury v Madison (1803)
Text of the US Constitution
Farmer-brewery licenses
A comprehensive discussion of "military necessity"

Philosophy & Logic

List of Fallacies
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Quotes from Adam Smith on Capitalism
Kekulé's dreams about the structure of benzine

Science

Beall's List of Potentially-Predatory Journals & Publishers

Eliza, the Rogerian Therapist
The Game of Life computer simulation (not the board game)

The Rules for The Game of Life
For a space that is 'populated':
* Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by solitude.
* Each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.
* Each cell with two or three neighbors survives.
For a space that is 'empty' or 'unpopulated'
* Each cell with three neighbors becomes populated.

Nuclear Weapons Effects in Space An interesting hypothetical exercise that might surprise some.
Nukemap: atomic weapon effect calculator
7 Lessons in Survivorship bias
'Diagoras, who is called the atheist, being at Samothrace, one of his friends showed him several pictures of people who had endured very dangerous storms; "See," says he, "you who deny a providence, how many have been saved by their prayers to the Gods." "Ay," says Diagoras, "I see those who were saved, but where are those painted who were shipwrecked?" ' Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods

Health and Medicine

Schairer and Schöniger's forgotten tobacco epidemiology and the Nazi quest for racial purity
NIH A&P
USDA FoodData Central
Wine tasting: subjective or objective? Exploring the nature of wine perception

COVID-19

Social distancing strategies for curbing the COVID-19 epidemic
Don’t drink bleach: Texas Poison Center Network getting 100s of calls about ingesting cleaning products

CDC COVID Data Tracker: Maps, charts, and data
The COVID Tracking Project
Daily Recount, 26 Mar 2020.
CDC: Late Sequelae of COVID-19 Persistent Symptoms in Patients After Acute COVID-19
Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome

CDC: 2009 H1N1 Pandemic (H1N1pdm09 virus)

Environment and Climate

Baotou is the world’s biggest supplier of rare earth minerals and it’s hell on Earth
Interagency Sea Level Rise Scenario Tool

Fermentation

Methanol contamination in traditionally fermented alcoholic beverages: the microbial dimension

Energy

Spin-out turns urine into electricity
Urine-powered energy generation
High-Performance Piezoelectric EnergyHarvesters and Their Applications
Fail-Safe Nuclear Power
Are these tiny, 'inherently safe' nuclear reactors the path to a carbon-free future?
Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way

Evolution and Abiogenesis

Understanding Evolution
Evidence for Evolution - O'Neil
Evidence for Evolution - NECSI
Evidence for Evolution - Khan Academy

The origin of life: what we know, what we can know and what we will never know

Space Agencies & Educational Groups

California Academy of Sciences
ESA
NASA
NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive
NOAA

Space & Spaceflight

Astronomy

"I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy." - Stephen Hawking

The Sky Tonight

timeanddate.com skyandtelescope.com earthsky.com space.com astronomy.com Night Sky Planner (JPL)

Amateur Astronomy info

"One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away." - Sandra Faber

Astronomy Groups

"Like many astronomers who use the great telescopes on Mauna Kea, I have participated personally and joyfully in ceremonies to celebrate the profound cosmic understanding that comes from joining ancient Hawaiian navigator traditions with the techniques of modern astronomy." - Sandra Faber

Astronomy Learning Activities

Star deck guide to the constellationsThis page has links to downloadable sets of constellation maps and a user guide.
Space Place: Learning activites for kids

Location of Earth (9x1-English Annot)

Astronomy Photos

"It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other." - Plato

Writing & Grammar

"Good writing is like a windowpane." - George Orwell
Writing Task OWL Resource List
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." Mark Twain
OWL: APA Style Guide
OWL: MLA Style Guide
OWL: Style Manual Glossary
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
OWL: Literary terms
OWL FAQs
OWL: Grammar
OWL: Visual rhetoric
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." - Robert Frost
OWL: Mechanics
OWL: Punctuation
OWL: Structuralism & Semiotics
"I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money." - Paulo Coelho

Propaganda

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it." Joseph Goebbels
Propaganda (Brittanica.com)
The Story of Propaganda (American Historical Association
WWII American propaganda leaflet in Japanese (East Carolina University)
The Information War in the Pacific, 1945 (CIA)
World War II Propaganda (PBS)
Propaganda (1952 U.S. government publication)
WWII German manual on resisting Allied propaganda
“The greater the lie, the more effective it is as a weapon.” Adolf Hitler

Satire

"If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up." Barry Humphries
Chinese Newspaper Publishes Bogus Story From The Onion as Real Deal
Maybe you know that article is satire, but a lot of people can’t tell the difference

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Devin Nunes' Cow NOTE: Congressman Devin Nunes, a co-sponsor of the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act, has filed lawsuits asking for over $250,000,000 in damages against people who made fun of him. How sad.
"A Modest Proposal" by Johnathan Swift (1729)
Former Republican Who Doctored Presidential Seal Is Happy Trump Stood In Front Of It

Discussion

How to Use Satire in Literature, Pop Culture, and Politics
Literary Devices, Terms, and Elements: Satire
The Purpose and Method of Satire

Compilations

Huffington Post's satire links
Kent State's List of Satirical News Sites
NPR stories tagged as satire
Time: satirical stories

Politics/Current Events

BLM Protests, Summer 2020

Demonstrations & Political Violence in America, Summer 2020
93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds (Sept 2020)
AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals
Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest
Rightwing extremists responsible for 67% of domestic terror attacks and plots so far this year, with at least half of that violence targeting protesters, according to a new analysis from a centrist thinktank.

January 6, 2021 Riot

Donald Trump's January 6, 2021 speech
Trump was more upset that Capitol mob looked ‘low class’ than about violent attacks
Paul Gosar assured Jan. 6 protest organizers they would get a 'blanket pardon' while they were planning rallies

Alternative views of January 6th

Fox News Texts Don't Match the Network's Coverage
GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde defends 'normal tourist visit' comparison for Jan. 6
Sen. Ron Johnson calls Capitol insurrection a 'peaceful protest'

Legal News

Capitol Breach Cases (DOJ)
Conspiracy Indictment of Elmer Stuart Rhodes III and other Oath Keepers
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes convicted of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 trial
Trump, Two Rioters Sued over Brian Sicknick's Death

Polling

Premarital Sex Nearly Universal Among Americans, and Has Been for Decades
65% of Americans Think They Are More Intelligent Than Average
Poll: Majority of Republicans say Trump better president than Lincoln

Death Penalty

Death Penalty Information Center
NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia.

Gun Violence

Gun Violence in Europe (2020)
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Child and Teen Firearm Mortality in the U.S. and Peer Countries (KFF)
Relative Lethality of Suicide Methods

Pandemic Info

Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next.
Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic (NBER)
Fauci: 'It would be nice' if Trump hadn't scrapped the NSC's global-health unit
Trump conference on COVID-19

Nuclear Weapon Issues

The Full Costs of Ballistic Missile Defense
It’s time to get US nukes out of Turkey
Urgent: Move US Nuclear Weapons Out Of Turkey
JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) summary

Elections, Voting Rights, Voting Impediments

Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data
Voter Caging and Purging
House Members Who Signed a Brief Asking the Supreme Court to Consider Overturning the Election

Policing Issues

Deaths in police custody in the United States: Research review
Boston Police Commissioner Gross: Officers ‘Wear Too Many Hats,’ Duties Should Be Shared

Barack Obama

Obama's Final Numbers
America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama's reign

Donald Trump, the far right, and the GOP

GOP Senator Mike Lee says "Of Course We're not a Democracy
Why the Republicans’ anti-democracy turn has become normalised

Republican leaders denounce Trump's dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes (Nov 2022)
Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies The presence of these extremists has been a persistent issue at CPAC, and in previous years conference organizers have ejected well-known Nazis and white supremacists such as Nick Fuentes. Hyatt Hotels Blasts As ‘Abhorrent’ The CPAC Stage’s Resemblance To Nazi Symbol The hotel chain also attacked CPAC members who acted with "hostility" when they were asked to wear masks, risking the health of other hotel guests and employees.

'There is a battle going on for the soul of the Republican Party'
Kellyanne Conway: Press Secretary Sean Spicer Gave 'Alternative Facts' (22 January 2017)
(Note: I was tempted to put this under Satire but the satire is unintentional.)

In Helsinki, Trump Appeared To Side With Russia Over U.S. Intelligence Community
‘Major Disarmament’ Expected in North Korea Within Trump’s First Term, Pompeo Says
Record U.S. trade deficit in 2018 reflects failure of Trump’s trade policies

In His Own Words: The President's Attacks on the Courts
After 2 Years, Trump Tax Cuts Have Failed To Deliver On GOP's Promises
Trump says he 'obviously' never said Mexico would pay directly for the wall. But he did
Some of Trump’s Most Devious Lies Are About Health Care
White House removes military family support page from official site (updated 21 Jan 2020)
Video of a rambling Trump rant
Trump's air strikes in Afghanistan dramatically increased civilian deaths: Report

Trump Family Business

Trump Litigation Tracker
Why U.S. Law Makes It Easy for Donald Trump To Stiff Contractors
A Look At The Ethical Conflicts Trump's Children Have Faced (Oct 2019)
Eric Trump’s false claim that the Trump family ‘got out of all international business’ (Oct 2019)
China grants 18 trademarks in 2 months to Trump, daughter (Nov 2018)
Ivanka Trump’s Brand Received Five New Trademarks From China This Month (Jan 2019)
Foreign officials spent more than $750,000 at Trump's D.C. hotel, new documents show
Military has spent nearly $200,000 at Trump’s Scottish resort since 2017

Ukrainegate

As Sondland testified, a misleading Ukraine story spread among conservatives on social media
No, Ukraine didn’t indict Burisma on Wednesday
Fiona Hill clashes with GOP over ‘fictional’ Ukraine claims
Nunes dodges questions about allegations he sought dirt on Biden from Ukraine
Barr Accuses Democrats Of Trying To 'Cripple' The Trump Administration's Power
Barr’s handpicked prosecutor tells inspector general he can’t back right-wing theory that Russia case was U.S. intelligence setup

Left/Right Groups

Green Party: Green New Deal
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" Henry David Thoreau
Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform

The Epoch Times, a Falun Gong news outlet

Racism, Supremacist Groups, & Domestic Terrorism

The FBI's Terrorism page
The Organizational Dynamics of Far‐Right Hate Groups in the United States A 2011 DHS report on right-wing extremism.
The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States
From Debate Stage, Trump Declines To Denounce White Supremacy

Member Of "Boogaloo Bois" Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Provide Material Support To Hamas
Member Of “Boogaloo Bois” Charged With Riot
Washington Legislator Matt Shea Accused Of 'Domestic Terrorism,' Report Finds

Christian Activist: When They Attack White Supremacy, They Attack Christianity
Alt Right: A Primer about the New White Supremacy
ADL: A Dark and Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States The full ADL report is here

Black men arrested at Philadelphia Starbucks feared for their lives
13 MLK statues beheaded, broken or stolen

Other

State laws on recording conversations
ExxonMobil Climate change documents
Home Ownership in the USA
AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states
Federal Anti-Poverty Programs Primarily Help the GOP's Base
The Lessons of the Afghanistan Papers
A Legacy Of Torture Is Preventing Trials At Guantánamo
The 'Afghanistan Papers' Confirm Critics' Worst Fears About America's Longest War
Global Warming Graphs
Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
Anti-abortion radical admits to bestiality

Child Trafficking and Abuse

National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1 (888) 373-7888 SMS: 233733 (Text "HELP" or "INFO")

The U.S. Justice Department Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS).
Save the Children child trafficking awareness
UNICEF child trafficking protection
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)

News

AP News stories on child trafficking
Almost half of identified cases of child trafficking begin with some family member involvement
Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men.
Tim Nolan (politician)
Ralph Shortey
Pizzagate Nearly Destroyed My Restaurant. Then My Customers Helped Me Fight Back

Religious Groups & Child Abuse

The Religious Sex Abuse Epidemic - Oct. 18, 2011
Child sexual abuse and the [Southern Baptist] church: How widespread is the problem? - Aug. 22, 2018
Buffalo [Catholic] Bishop Resigns Amid Mounting Controversy Over Clergy Abuse - Dec. 4, 2019
Montana Jehovah's Witness sex abuse case underscores church's worldwide reckoning - Sept. 30, 2018
The Ultra-Orthodox [Hasidic Jewish] Community's Sex Abuse Crisis Has Finally Reached a Tipping Point - Sept. 24, 2019
MormonLeaks: Leaked document sheds light on LDS Church's handling of 7 sex abuse cases - Sept. 11, 2018

Religion... and not

Applying God’s Law: Religious Courts and Mediation in the U.S.

Some Reasons Why Humanists Reject The Bible
The Flat-Earth Bible
Skeptic's Annotated Bible
Biblical Contradictions
List of over 700 inconsistencies in the Bible.

Three in Ten US Adults Now Religiously Unaffiliated

On Ethics

Ethics vs. Morals
The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect
A 1967 discussion of the unintended effects of allowing or preventing abortion.
A Framework for Making Ethical Decisions
Ethical Lenses
Teaching and Maintaining Ethical Behavior in a Professional Organization
Rethinking Ethics in Law Enforcement

"Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth. The argument for intelligent design may have some appeal for many Christians but is ultimately a negation of what science is about, which is to make a hypotheses from what is observable and then conduct experiments in a constant process of testing." George Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, former Archbishop of Canterbury

Groups

Patheos
Sojourners
Church and State

Wiccan (Witches) Rede
New Apostolic Reformation

Prosperity Theology

What you should know about the prosperity gospel
Prosperity Gospel - Christianity Today

Eschatology & "The End Times"

What the Bible Says Will Happen in End Times
2022: Apocalypse now? To some evangelicals, Ukraine invasion spells the end of days
2018: Trump Will Start the End of the World, Claim Evangelicals Who Support Him

News Items

Trump has changed White evangelicals' views on morality in one major way
Has Trump caused white Evangelicals to change their tune on morality?
Trump killed the ‘values voter’ wing of the GOP. It isn’t coming back in 2024.
Global Evidence of Extreme Intuitive Moral Prejudice Against Atheists
22 Evangelical Scandals
The Story of Marjoe (Gortner, child evangelist)
After 350 Years, Vatican Says Galileo Was Right: It Moves (1992)
Former Archbishop of Canterbury: atheists use 9/11 as excuse to attack all religions

General History

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous." - Thomas Merton
DNA: Genotypes and Phenotypes (Smithsonian)
The Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, Italy, and France
The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States Five states' reasons for secession prior to the American Civil War. "Slave" appears 83 times, including variants such as "slavery" (38 times), "slave-holding," and "non-slave-holding" (21 times) in these documents. This statistic is a pretty good indication of what the main issue was after the 1860 election.
No, the Democratic Party didn’t create the Ku Klux Klan
Exploration of the Canyons of the Colorado by J. W. Powell (1895)
History and Adjudication of the Common Lands of Spanish and Mexican Land Grants
Challenges to the Confidentiality of U.S. Federal Statistics, 1910 – 1965
Military Developments of WWI
Spanish Flu Invades Massachusetts
Why the Controversy Over a Black Actress Playing Anne Boleyn Is Unnecessary and Harmful
Long before Jodie Turner-Smith’s miniseries came under criticism, British Indian actress Merle Oberon portrayed the Tudor queen
The FBI and the American Gangster, 1924-1938
German Tiger Battalions on the Eastern and Western Fronts, 1942-1945
FDR Library

FDR's "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." promise Oct. 30, 1940

Catastrophe on the Yalu: America’s intelligence failure in Korea

My Lai

The My Lai Massacre
My Lai Pilot Hugh Thompson's Obituary
After Pinkville, Noam Chomsky "They’re young, they’re idealistic and don’t like man’s inhumanity to man. As they get older they will become wiser and more tolerant."
- Colonel Joseph Bellas, commanding officer of a hospital in Vietnam where soldiers boycotted Thanksgiving dinner in protest against the war.
‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer’
“It is time we recognized that [in Vietnam] ours, in truth, was a noble cause. We dishonor the memory of 50,000 young Americans who died in that cause when we give way to feelings of guilt.”
- Ronald Reagan, 18 August 1980

Racism

Lee Atwater's "Southern Strategy" interview (Beware, ye weak of heart! It gets ugly.)
- An audio recording of the Atwater interview.
"The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites."
- Malcolm X

Military (and Not-So-Military) References

"We have gotten into the fashion of talking of cavalry tactics, artillery tactics, and infantry tactics. This distinction is nothing but mere abstraction. There is but one art, and that is the tactics of the combined arms. The tactics of a body of mounted troops composed of the three arms is subject to the same established principles as is that of a mixed force in which foot soldiers bulk largely. The only difference is one of mobility." - Major Gerald Gilbert, British Army, 1907

2022-2025 Russo-Ukrainian War

Oryxspioenkop

Mediazona-reported Russian losses during 2022-25 Ukraine invasion.

Non-Military or Non-US Sources

The Battle of Midway: Why the Japanese Lost

Institute for the Study of War

Brookings

Loitering Munitions

CIA Library

US National Archives

Library of Congress

US Strategic Bombing Survey (WWII)

RAF History

A Brief History of the Torpedo, Part 1
A Brief History of the Torpedo, Part 2
The U.S. Naval Institute, a non-official non-profit membership association

Invasion: Pearl Harbor! (A well-done debunking of "Japanese could have invaded Hawaii in WWII" theories)

Royal Navy History

"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public." Winston Churchill
Britain's Struggle to Build Effective Tanks during the Second World War (Imperial War Museum)
People’s War, People’s Army by Võ Nguyên Giáp
Arms Control Association: Who Has Nukes?
"There is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours." John F. Kennedy
Canadian Nautical Research Society

US Military Sources

Defense Technical Information Center

Task Force Butler: A Case Study in the Employment of an Ad Hoc Unit in Combat Operations, During Operation Dragoon, 1-30 August 1944
Turning Point: A History of German Petroleum Production in WWII & Its Lessons for the Role of Oil in Modern Air Warfare
Handbook on Japanese Military Forces: 1944 US military technical manual
Japan's Battle of Okinawa
WWII research into camouflage methods including paints and Yehudi lights (tends to be very technical)
Mitchells Over The Pacific: The Dynamics Of B-25 Innovation Development of the B-25 from a high- and medium-altitude level bomber to low-altitude bomber, strafer, and ground attack plane. Contains mini-bios of Gen. George Kenney and Lt. Col. P.I. "Pappy" Gunn.
76mm GUN M1A1 & M1A2: An Analysis of U.S. Anti-Tank Capabilities During WW II
How Southwest Pacific Area Operations in WWII Influenced the Royal Australian Air Force
Torpedoes and Their Impact on Naval Warfare
Operation Starvation (mining of Japanese waters, 1945
Within Limits: The U.S. Air Force and the Korean War

HyperWar: primarily official documents produced by the U.S., U.K. and British Commonwealth governments.

Fort Benning Armor Center

Naval databases

US Naval Abbreviations (Also see 'CINCPAC list of abbreviations & short titles' below.)
Naval History Information Center The finest online naval history information (if they do say so themselves).
Navypedia
NavSource Naval History - Photographic History Of The U.S. Navy

1941 Army-Navy Football Program

US Military Sources

"God protects fools, drunkards, and the United States of America" Otto von Bismarck
Air Force Historical Support Division
"Wars are not paid for in wartime: the bill comes later." Benjamin Franklin
US Army Center of Military History
"I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell." Gen. Joseph Stilwell

National Museum of the United States Army
West Point maps and atlases

Naval History and Heritage Command (USN)

"The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly." - Emperor Hirohito, April 29, 1942, a few days after the Doolittle Raid

US Naval War College Digital Commons

The Development of the Angled-Deck Aircraft Carrier—Innovation and Adaptation

USMC Archives
"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Miscellaneous

Household Hints

How To: Remove Sticky Residue From Surfaces (Big And Small)

Logic, I guess

Russell's teapot An analogy to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims.
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” Bertrand Russell

The result of not paying attention

Photo of bear attack victim WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGE!

Blogs

The Consul's Files

Mina Chang

Business Insider: Trump official with dubious résumé appears to have even skipped a 6-day leadership seminar

The below biography no longer exists on the State Department website (as of Nov 19, 2019) and is included for historical purposes.
From https://www.state.gov/biographies/mina-chang/ as of 14 Nov. 2019, 4:30 AM Eastern time.

Ms. Mina Chang serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO).

Prior to joining the Bureau, DAS Chang served as the Chief Executive Officer of an INGO. Applying insights gleaned from a broad range of civilian and military data sets, data analytics, social science and geo-spatial intelligence capabilities to identify and assist vulnerable communities, the organization worked to isolate root drivers of instability, and direct development initiatives to address critical vulnerabilities that non-state actors exploit to further their agenda.

She has extensive on the ground experience in conflict areas such as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, and the Philippines. She has been an advocate for proactive stabilization as a strategic tool of foreign engagement and an investment in a stronger America abroad.

Mina is an alumna of the Harvard Business School, a graduate of the United States Army War College National Security Seminar, a Harvard John F. Kennedy Senior Executive in National and International Security and a former International Security Fellow at New America. Ms. Chang has been published in CNN, Fortune, Foreign Policy Journal, Forbes, Defense One and The Hill, writing on issues of policy, humanitarian aid, development, the application of emerging technologies and data science capabilities by the sector and its role in the context of national security and global stability. She has addressed the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, as well as the United Nations, and served as a Fellow with the Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations at United States Military Academy at West Point, assisting in the development of academic programs tied to humanitarian and disaster response.

Served as Civil-Military UN-CMCoord Advisor contributing to the current Common Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Standards. Appointed by the United Nations to serve on the Expert Panel for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Humanitarian Response.

About me

My Material

Sources

Not-So-Crappy News (for "those days")

Law

Media Bias

e-books

Government Data Sources

Philosophy & Logic

Science

Health and Medicine

COVID-19

Environment and Climate

Fermentation

Energy

Evolution and Abiogenesis

Space Agencies & Educational Groups

Space & Spaceflight

Astronomy

The Sky Tonight

Amateur Astronomy info

Astronomy Groups

Astronomy Learning Activities

Astronomy Photos

Writing & Grammar

Propaganda

Satire

Discussion

Compilations

Politics/Current Events

BLM Protests, Summer 2020

January 6, 2021 Riot

Alternative views of January 6th

Legal News

Polling

Death Penalty

Gun Violence

Pandemic Info

Nuclear Weapon Issues

Elections, Voting Rights, Voting Impediments

Policing Issues

Barack Obama

Donald Trump, the far right, and the GOP

Trump Family Business

Ukrainegate

Left/Right Groups

Racism, Supremacist Groups, & Domestic Terrorism

Other

Child Trafficking and Abuse

News

Religious Groups & Child Abuse

Religion... and not

On Ethics

Groups

Prosperity Theology

Eschatology & "The End Times"

News Items

General History

My Lai

Racism

Military (and Not-So-Military) References

2022-2025 Russo-Ukrainian War

Non-Military or Non-US Sources

US Military Sources

Naval databases

US Military Sources

Miscellaneous

Household Hints

Logic, I guess

The result of not paying attention

Blogs

Mina Chang