Category: Peace Intelligence

Why We Fight – Because it pays well

The most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps Major General Smedley Butler once wrote that “War is a racket.” That was in 1935. If only he could see it now. The cash flow enabling the global war on terror which was launched in 2001 is astonishing, numbers that are too large to even imagine. Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz has estimated that the total cost of Iraq alone will exceed $5 trillion when all the borrowed money and legacy expenses for 30,000 wounded soldiers are finally paid off. And Iraq is only one part of the enormous shift in national resources that has taken place over the past twelve years.

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ATROCITIES: risks of state-led mass killing

AUSTRALIA: Terrorists taking cut of millions in drug money

BIG DATA: predictive algorythms and virtues of transparancy

CAR: CAR risks spiralling into genocide

CHINA: 37,000 Elite Offshore Accounts Outed, China Reacts to Protect Them and Censor the Story

CHINA: How Its Leader — Now the World's Most Powerful Man — Thinks

Noting that all of China's problems were related to each other and could not be tackled piecemeal, he declared that the “people-centered” reforms he was introducing would be “comprehensive economic, political, social and ecological” — bolstered by “Party building.”

CHINA: Where Will It Invest Hundreds of Billions?

CIA: Rethinking the Criterion for Assessing Cia-targeted Killings: Drones, Proportionality and Jus Ad Vim

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The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism

By Abba A. Solomon and Norman Solomon

Since its founding six years ago, J Street has emerged as a major Jewish organization under the banner “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace.” By now J Street is able to be a partial counterweight to AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The contrast between the two U.S. groups is sometimes stark. J Street applauds diplomacy with Iran, while AIPAC works to undermine it. J Street encourages U.S. support for “the peace process” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, while AIPAC opposes any meaningful Israeli concessions. In the pressure cooker of Washington politics, J Street’s emergence has been mostly positive. But what does its motto “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace” really mean?

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I meant to run this yesterday but, oh well. I was privileged to hear Martin Luther King, Jr give his “I have a Dream” and “I have gone the Mountain” speeches. This is his Nobel acceptance address. It is almost forgotten, but has always impressed me as one of his best speeches, as relevant today as it was on 10 December 1964 when he gave it in Oslo.

Martin Luther King's Nobel Acceptance Speech
THE REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Nobel Laureate – Nobelprize.org

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Martin Luther King @ Phi Beta Iota