Category: Cultural Intelligence

Dying to Live, Living to Die, Lying to Live, and Living a Lie

Whether or not the play on words is trivial, there is also a case for exploring the slogan by which American foreign policy might well be framed by critics, namely “Saving American Lies”. This too appears to be interpreted with the qualifier “at all costs” — irrespective of the deaths that might ensue, whatever form these might take. A notable preoccupation with preserving this illusion is acclaimed as vital to American national security.

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Tangled Threads of US False Narratives

Exclusive: Official Washington’s many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against Sunni terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet, a risk that Robert Parry explores.

. . . .a counter-argument to the fake narratives is possible if some candidate seized on the principle of an informed electorate as vital to democracy.

 

ISIS wants to destroy the ‘grey zone'. Here's how we defend it

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed 16 November 2015

After the Paris attacks, it is imperative that we safeguard this arena of co-existence, where people of all faith and none remain unified on the principles of common humanity.

EXTRACT

While Hollande’s reactionary declaration of war is understandable, it falls into the ideological trap laid by ISIS. France’s new state of emergency grants the government extraordinary powers that effectively put an end to democratic accountability, and give law-enforcement and security agencies unaccountable authority to run amok.

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