Category: Peace Intelligence

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Matthew Jamison: The End of Israel (Says Henry Kissinger), The End of the US-Israel Alliance — Zionism Strike 16?

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Why the US-Israel Alliance Will Soon Be a Trouble for Both

The recent shredding of over 70 years of American foreign policy with regards to the location of the US Embassy in the State of Israel has been a major catastrophic inflection point in the tortured history of the State of Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the American/Israel uber-special Alliance. It has also been a crystallization moment for many such as myself who once were unwavering and unquestioning supporters of Israel and defenders of Israel in an overwhelmingly hostile anti-Israel environment in the UK and Europe.

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Worth a Look: Books on Islam Being Read by Alt-Right Christians

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Nonie Darwish, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law (Thomas Nelson, 2009)

Robert R. Reilly, The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2011)

Norbert G. Pressburg, What the Modern Martyr Should Know: Seventy-Two Grapes and Not a Single Virgin: The New Picture of Islam (Amazon CreateSpace, 2012)

Hamed Abdel-Samad, Islamic Fascism (Prometheus Books, 2016)

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Religion & the Politics of Religion

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Penguin: Swarm – Ethereum’s 3rd Shot at Decentalized Internet

Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Peace Intelligence

Swarm: Inside Ethereum's Push to Create a Decentralized Internet

The Lead Developer of the Swarm team, Viktor Trón, has announced the immediate release and deployment to the public testnet of Ethereum’s Swarm client v0.3, which represents the third proof-of-concept (POC3) installment of this tool.

Decentralized Technologies like Ethereum, Swarm, and Whisper, which Trón calls “The Holy Trinity”, will revolutionize how we share information, who owns it, and who can profit from it. However, there is still a lot to accomplish before this is possible.

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Tom Atlee: Finding Our Way Together – Minority Views Matter

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Tom Atlee

Finding our way together – through innovations in shared understanding (Collective Coherence Part Two)

Majoritarian voting can get us to a workable answer quickly without having to worry about minorities and concerns. But sometimes some of us want to tap more inclusive wisdom in our search for collective guidance. In those situations minorities, dissent and concerns are resources for understanding more of the big picture we’re trying to understand. Approaches that focus on helping us find shared understanding are precious in those cases.

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Thomas L. Are: Zionist Bigotry Zionism Strike 15

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Zionist Bigotry

As Israel celebrates 70 years of stateism, it has become a nation of racism, arrogance and bigotry. Bradley Burston, writing in Haaretz, a leading newspaper in Israel, says:

It hurts me to write what I’m about to. But it also hurts me to have to live in this place today. This is Zionism as racism…As a public servant, as an Orthodox rabbi, as a settler, you’re free to say anything, as long as it’s anti-Arab, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti- Palestinian anti-Nazi, anti-North American…For sheer, unadulterated Zionist bigotry and hatred…no one can touch Benyamin Netanyahu [i]

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Amazon Kindle: The Death of Secret Intelligence: Three Book Reviews, One Line in the Sand (Trump Revolution 32)

Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Intelligence at a Cross Roads: To Be Or Not To Be…
4 stars – A+ on Its Narrow Focus, C+ For Contextual Shortfalls David Omand and Mark Phythian, Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence (Georgetown University Press, 2018), 286 pages, $32.95, ISBN-13: 978-1626165601.

Grand Theft, Mass Murder, & Legalized Lies – Book Review as Epitaph – 3 stars – Errors, Lies, and Omissions James R. Clapper, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence (Viking, 2018), 432 pages, $17.99, ISBN-13: 978-0525558644.

REVIEW: The Assault on Intelligence – American National Security in an Age of Lies – 2 stars – Opens with a Lie, Goes Downhill from There Michael V. Hayden, The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies (Penguin, 2018), 304 pages, $16.72, ISBN-13: 978-0525558583.

For thirty years I have fought for the re-direction of national intelligence. These three book reviews explain what I have been up against and why I failed.