The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Tariq ibn Shihab reported: A man asked the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, “What is the best jihad?” The Prophet said, “A word of truth in front of a tyrannical ruler.”
Source: Musnad Aḥmad 18449 #ICSVE, #Turkeypurge
Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: A Culture Without Fear
First Nation tribes from North America coined a term to describe the ‘disease of the white man’ – wetiko. In their understanding, wetiko consists of two essential characteristics: chronic inability for empathy and an egoistic fixation on ones own personal benefit and profit. The First Peoples used this word specifically because they could not fathom any other explanation for the behavior of the European colonialists. While often declared as unchangeable psychological features of humanity, greed, selfishness and violent impulses may in fact not be our “human nature” as many claim, but rather the outcome of our alienation under capitalist conditions.
RUSSIA, NATO, AND THE ATTEMPTED COUP AGAINST ERDOGAN: A GEOSTRATEGIC AND GEOCULTURAL APPROACH
Leveraging Byzantine Europe as a Positive Construct
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To many among Vatican insiders, Egypt could be the key for a Middle East renaissance. Fr. Paolo Asolan, a Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, saw this “Egyptian opportunity” during a recent trip he made to the land of pyramids. “When I was there – he said – I thought of what Cardinal Casaroli said about Poland after he had visited the countries beyond the Iron Curtain: if Communism will fall, it will fall starting from Poland.” As an analogy, Asolan would say that if Middle Eastern and African extremism will fall, it will fall starting from Egypt.
A New Level of “Deep State” Exposure – Interviews by Gary Null with public interest attorney, Daniel Sheehan
Activists from all backgrounds would be well-served to gain a thorough understanding of the corporate, military and financial forces that operate behind the scenes and exert control over governments and institutions. Even presidents have had to contend with such forces.
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U. S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” –President WoodrowWilson, 1913
When people learn that I lived for 30 years on about $1000 a year, the reaction is almost always shock and disbelief. But truth be told, I lived well during that time and it was pretty easy.
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Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource Curse, and a Fragmenting World
By Patrick Cockburn, TomDispatch, 28 June 2016
Everywhere nation states are enfeebled or collapsing, as authoritarian leaders battle for survival in the face of mounting external and internal pressures. . . . A common explanation for the rise of Islamic resistance movements is that the socialist, secularist, and nationalist opposition had been crushed by the old regimes' security forces, while the Islamists were not. . . . Encouraged by Washington and Brussels, twenty-first-century neoliberalism has made unequal societies ever more unequal and helped transform already corrupt regimes into looting machines.
