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This isn’t about free speech – it’s about war

As the great libertarian writer and editor Garet Garrett put it some sixty years ago: “No doubt the people know they can have their Republic back if they want it enough to fight for it and pay the price. The only point is that no leader has yet appeared with the courage to make them choose.”

The American conundrum, and that of the movement for peace and the restoration of the Constitution, is a crisis of leadership. The country yearns for it, cries out for it – and may yet be rewarded for its patience.

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Glenn Greenwalk: Zionist Censorship as Context for Muslim Baiting

Cultural Intelligence

In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons

Glenn Greenwald

The Intercept, 9 January 2015

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Two representative anti-Zionist cartoons below the line.

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Mini-Me: Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo — USG & SA Created Islamic Fundamentalist Movement

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Huh?

The Spectacular Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo

Shamus Cooke

CounterPunch, 14 January 2015

The U.S.-backed Afghan jihad was the birth of the modern Islamic fundamentalist movement. The jihad attracted and helped organize fundamentalists across the region, as U.S. allies in the Gulf state dictatorships used the state religion to promote it. Fighters who traveled to fight in Afghanistan returned to their home countries with weapon training and hero status that inspired others to join the movement.

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Chuck Spinney: Ann Jones – Is America Crazy?

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Food for thought. Since 9-11, the United States has been violating all five criteria for a sensible grand strategy. Left unchecked, it will eventually generate the mother of blow backs. Ann Jones has written a personal vignette to goes to the heart of our growing grand strategic crisis on a deeply personal level — most of it has to do with dysfunction at home. This superb analytical essay by Ann Jones is entirely consistent with my own microscopic experience. Chuck SpinneyThe Blaster

Is This Country Crazy?
Inquiring Minds Elsewhere Want to Know

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Antechinus: Russia Asserts Its Byzantium Roots

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Peculiarities of Russian National Character

Whereas prior to these events the Russians were rather content to consider themselves “just another European country,” they have now remembered that they are a distinct civilization, with different civilizational roots (Byzantium rather than Rome)—one that has been subject to concerted western efforts to destroy it once or twice a century, be it by Sweden, Poland, France, Germany, or some combination of the above. This has conditioned the Russian character in a specific set of ways which, if not adequately understood, is likely to lead to disaster for Europe and the world. Learn more.

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