Mongoose: #GoogleGestapo – Black Activist Banned by Twitter, Allegedly for Being a Russian Troll — Lawsuit Planned

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, IO Deeds of Peace, Peace Intelligence
Mongoose

‘I’m looking to sue’: Black activist says Twitter banned her as ‘Russian bot’

Phi Beta Iota: #GoogleGestapo is out of control and President Donald Trump does not appear to have advisors who know how to deal with this.  Robert Steele does….and before the end of the year.

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Steven Aftergood: CRS on US [Subsidized] Arms Sales to Middle East

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Military, Peace Intelligence
Steven Aftergood

A LOOK AT US ARMS SALES TO MIDDLE EAST

Some restrictions on U.S. arms sales to human rights violators in the Middle East have recently been relaxed by the Trump Administration, a new report from the Congressional Research Service noted.

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Kosmos: Life within the Cosmic Ecology

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Extraterrestial Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Editorial (Nancy Roof)
Excerpt | Who Do We Choose to Be? (Margaret Wheatley)
Excerpt | We Are Bio-Cosmic Beings Learning to Live in a Living Universe  (Duane Elgin)
Excerpt | Liminal Leadership (Nora Bateson)
Excerpt | The Soul of Education (Rachel Kessler)
Excerpt | The Soul of Humanity and the New Civilization (Nancy Seifer)

Robert Parry: How Netanyahu Pulls Trump’s Strings

Government, Peace Intelligence
Robert Parry

How Netanyahu Pulls Trump’s Strings

Although dressing up his capitulation to Netanyahu in tough-guy phrasing, Trump is doing what most U.S. politicians do – they grovel before Bibi Netanyahu.

And, if you have any doubts about that reality, you can watch how often both Republicans and Democrats jump to their feet when Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress, an honor that he has received three times, tying him with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Those moments of American humiliation – as almost all 535 members of Congress act like puppets on invisible strings – represent the actual subservience of the U.S. government to a foreign power. And that power is not Russia.

President Trump is just the latest American politician to have his strings yanked by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Parag Khanna: Our Asian Future … and More

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Parag Khanna

Believe it or not, we are nearing one year since last November's presidential election. Since then, populism seems to have triumphed over pragmatism in every corner of American policy-making.

But whereas many expected 2016's Brexit and Trump shocks to inspire a populist wave across the Western world, this year's French and German elections fortunately proved otherwise. In this recent column for Quartz, I explain why social-democratic European governments have done a better job of holding populism at bay than the Anglo-Saxon model.

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