Category: Cultural Intelligence

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Chuck Spinney: Serbs, Croats, & Muslims

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

Written from a decidedly German perspective, but very interesting.

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The Bosnian Knot

Conflicts Unchanged in Birthplace of WWI

By Walter Mayr, 16 January 2014

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“There will be no peace in this area, as long as everyone is not living among his own people,” says the Serb mayor. And Bato Princip, the assassin's descendant, warns the rest of Europe against the illusion that everyone has learned his lesson in the place where World War I began, “because in this country, there are always, unfortunately, three different truths: one for Serbs, one for Croats and one for Muslims.”

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Jean Lievens: Sharing Economy Steeped in Ethical Controversy

Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

The Sharing Economy is Steeped in Ethical Controversy

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According to Vice contributor Kelly Carlin, the term “sharing economy” has become a misnomer. By attaching the word “sharing” to a service it gives clients a warm fuzzy feeling, like attaching “green” or “all natural.” Carlin calls it ‘sharewashing.’ “Peel back the wrapper and you find that beneath its promised efficiencies and innovations, the sharing economy moniker can sometimes whitewash operations that are tax-shifting, labour-regulation-skirting and tip-stealing,” she writes.

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Chuck Spinney: Denial & Ignorance in America

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Media
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

For America, Denial Is a River in Iraq

by JP Sottile, Antiwar.com, January 18, 2014

Americans don’t know much about geography.

In 2006, three years into the bloody War on Iraq, 63% of Americans aged 18-24 couldn’t find the “target-rich” nation on a map.

To be fair, only half could find New York State on a map, so it is unsurprising that, in spite of its then-dominance of the news cycle, they couldn’t locate the principal fixation of American foreign policy on a map that still brims with U.S. military bases and deployments.

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Berto Jongman: British Amateur Whistleblower Exposes Fraud Among American Psychologists

Academia, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Ineptitude
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Interesting bit:

“The answer,” says Brown when I meet him in a north London cafe, “is because that's how it always happens. Look at whistleblower culture. If you want to be a whistleblower you have to be prepared to lose your job. I'm able to do what I'm doing here because I'm nobody. I don't have to keep any academics happy. I don't have to think about the possible consequences of my actions for people I might admire personally who may have based their work on this and they end up looking silly. There are 160,000 psychologists in America and they've got mortgages. I've got the necessary degree of total independence.”

The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness

The astonishing story of Nick Brown, the British man who began a part-time psychology course in his 50s – and ended up taking on America's academic establishment

Andrew Anthony

The Observer, Saturday 18 January 2014

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Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.3

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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AFGHANISTAN: Another Red Line Crossed: The Taverna attack and the killing of foreigners just because they were foreigners

AFGHANISTAN: Complex Attack on Central Kabul Restaurant

AL QAEDA: Alex Schmid on Al-Qaeda's “Single Narrative” and Attempts to Develop Counter-Narratives: The State of Knowledge

AL QAEDA: Key anti-Assad rebel leader acknowledges al Qaida past, potentially complicating U.S. aid in Syria

AL QAEDA: ‘Living suicide bomb' rejoins al-Qaida after Saudi deprogramming

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Betty Boop: Tomgram on Nick Turse, Secret Wars, & Black Ops Blowback — US Government Learning Impaired & Morally Challenged

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Peace Intelligence

betty boop hotTomgram: Nick Turse, Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback

Nick Turse is the author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, just now out in paperback.

Tom: These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington’s global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a new category in my mind that I call: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

 

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