Spokesman John Pike: self-promoterPosted on 01/17/2002 5:01:01 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
John Pike is everywhere, promoting himself in the media as "a national security expert"
Just today in the Christian Science Monitor: "It makes me nervous that, like the British, we've acquired an empire in a fit of absent-mindedness,"
says John Pike,a national security expert at GlobalSecurity.org. The key aspects of today's US military deployments, according to Pike, are their scope, and their durability. "They're not just a bunch of guys passing through," says Pike.
Let's take a look at John Pike. Spokesman John Pike: self-promoter
[Excerpt from his site] John Pike, one of the world's leading experts on defense, space and intelligence policy, is Director of GlobalSecurity.org, a nonprofit nonpartisan organization which he founded in December 2000. GlobalSecurity.org is focused on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium. Internationally renowned for his depth of knowledge on a broad array of issues, Pike is widely noted for his ability to translate complex technical information into concise and pithy soundbites. He has consistently provided insight and understanding of world affairs, military, space and satellite technology to policy makers, the press and the public at large.
Pike previously worked for nearly two decades with the Federation of American Scientists, where he directed the Space Policy, Cyberstrategy, Military Analysis, Nuclear Resource and Intelligence Resource projects. Pike developed the Federation's award winning website, and was personally responsible for creating most of the site's online content. He has also been at the forefront of utilizing satellite imagery to monitor worldwide weapons facilities.
Frequently called upon to testify before Congress, Pike in 1983 established the Space Policy Working Group, comprised of Congressional staff and advocacy organizations concerned with missile defense issues. Ten years later, he set up the Military Spending Group, composed of public interest organizations working on alternative security strategies. Pike helped form the National Campaign to Save the ABM Treaty, and served on its Executive Committee. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served on a variety of non-governmental boards and advisory committees, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Peace Research and European Security Studies Center, and the Verification Technology Information Centre of London. He has been a consultant to numerous groups, including the United Nations Group of Government Experts on Confidence Building Measures in Outer Space. In 1991 he participated in the NASA International Near-Earth Object (NEO) Detection Panel, and served as a consultant to the NEO Working Group of the International Astronomical Union.
Pike regularly provides commentary and analysis on space and security issues to PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, NPR, and numerous print and online publications. Aerospace Weekly called him "one of the country's most credible space industry observers," and the Christian Science Monitor wrote that he was "one of the handful of American observers equally conversant with both the technological and political aspects of strategic defense and arms control." In 1986 the National Journal named Pike as one of the 150 "People Who Make a Difference" in Washington. In 1988 U.S. News and World Report, citing his work on space and defense, listed him among the 250 members of the "New American Establishment." And in 1994 he was named one of the 25 "Rising Stars Who Will Lead us into the Next Space Age" by the National Space Society's Ad Astra magazine.
In 1991 Pike received the "Public Service Award" of the Federation of American Scientists, and in 1997 he was presented with the Open Source "Award of the Golden Candle" for his work on intelligence related issues. The author of more than 200 studies and articles on national security and space, Pike began his career as a political consultant and science writer. [End Excerpt]
Current Projects and Initiatives at the Federation of American Scientists… (How interesting but not surprising that John Pike's doing most of them)
"John Pike, a spokesman for the Federation of American Scientists and perhaps the shrewdest SDI foe in the galaxy..." -- The Washington Times
"Mr. Pike is regularly quoted in the press and has provided what some Congressional staff members consider the best analyses of the arms control implications of specific `star wars experiments'." -- The New York Times
"... one of the most informed outsiders on the `Star Wars' campaign. Reporters turn to him, lawmakers consult him, and the Pentagon disagrees with him." --Defense Week
No kidding!! It's taken him years to become a .......a......a self-promoting gas bag.
Thanks for the quote from The Washington Post, I hadn't seen that before.
How does one absent mindedly acquire an empire?
Just like "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" doesn't have a thing to do with primate genitals.
That's the "pithy" Pike gently reminding us he's a "sane" LIBERAL!
Steven Aftergood made his bones with a crackpot organization out of LA with the dubious name of The Committe to Bridge the Gap, and their forte was intervening in many proceedings and cases involving reactor licensing, especially educational and research reactors. The Congressional Record is rife with his drivel on the subject. It got so bad I had to send in some comments on a subject using the pseudonym of Marvin Supergood, of The Committee to Blow the Bridge.
And "on short notice". About sums it up, I think!
This one has even fooled Bill O'Reilly.
O'Reilly thinks he has everyone fooled.
Personally, I can't take his populist act anymore.
Another leftist space expert is John Logsdon. However John does have a PhD and is a professor at George Washington University. He is of the same ilk as Pike except he has official "papers."
Pike is expecially offensive because he is a disarmament adovocate, trying as he say's to
"bell the cat" (U.S. Defense complex) while passing himself off as a "national security expert!"
The clock is a 11/2-foot-square wooden mock-up in the magazine's office at the University of Chicago. It was started two years after the bulletin began as a newsletter among scientists of the Manhattan Project - the top-secret U.S. effort during World War II to develop an atomic bomb.--(AP)--- Doomsday Clock Moved Ahead Doomsday clock closer to midnight--[Excerpt] Members of the Bulletin's board of directors listened, weighed the evidence, and announced their decision at a press conference the next day. "To say there is a return to the cold war is too extreme," said board member and U of C political scientist Stephen Walt. "But the trend is in the wrong direction." Besides chilly U.S.- Russian relations and deteriorating nuclear controls, he said, the board considered aggravating global circumstances like ethnic warring and weak support for U.N. peacekeeping. Despite some progress in world security, added John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists, "governments and people are complacent about the fact that much of our doomsday machinery is still in place." [End Excerpt]
Federation of American Scientists founded by Manhattan Project Scientists.………..Source Peacewire.org
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