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Norrie Huddle: Charles Hugh Smith on The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke Into Open Warfare

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement, Military, Peace Intelligence
Norie Huddle

The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke into Open Warfare

The battle raging in the Deep State isn't just a bureaucratic battle–it's a war for the soul, identity and direction of the nation.

I have long suggested that the tectonic plates of the Deep State are shifting as the ruling consensus has eroded. Some elements of the Deep State–what I call the progressive wing, which is (ironically to some) anchored in the military services– now view the neocon-CIA (Security State)-Wall Street elements as profoundly dangerous to America's long-term interests, both domestically and globally.

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Doug Macgregor: Army Prepared for Wrong War

04 Inter-State Conflict, Ethics, Military, Peace Intelligence
Col Dr. Douglas Macgregor

The U.S. Army May Have Prepared for the Wrong War

On February 7, Vice Chief of Staff for the Army Gen. Daniel Allyn stated that only three of fifty-eight combat brigades in the U.S. Army were sufficiently trained for wartime deployment, blaming the condition on sequestration. It is not the lack of money, however, that is behind the army’s inability to maintain ready forces. Rather, it is the obsolete force structure the army has maintained since World War II. Fortunately, modern thinking and a new organization for the army could reverse this trend—without requiring an increase in the budget.

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Sheldon Richman: Three Wrongs Do Not Make a Right — American Church is Wrong; Dying for a Lie is Wrong; Exploiting the Dead for Political Effect is Wrong…

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military
Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is a senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is the author of FFF’s award-winning book Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families; Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax; and FFF’s newest book Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State. He is the former editor of The Freeman, published by The Foundation for Economic Education.

Trump Assumes Command of the American Church

It's time we learn that killing and dying for an ideology—even so-called liberal democracy— is as bad as doing so for a religion.

Read full article @ Reason.com.

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Eagle: Living in a World of Lies, Liars, and Fake News…

Academia, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence
300 Million Talons…

We are not living in a ‘post-truth' world, we are living the lies of others

Nigel Farage is not a Nazi and nor is Donald Trump. But what is terrifying – and deeply akin to fascism – is our ability to ‘think’ our way from truth into lies

We handed journalism to social media – and the armed men who control the areas from which these reports came know that they can pull the same trick again next time.

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Doug Macgregor: Trump’s Mission – Build a New American Army

Ethics, Military, Officers Call, Strategy
Col Dr. Douglas Macgregor

Trump’s mission: Build a new American Army

In January 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, together with their respective military advisers, met in Morocco at Casablanca to devise the strategy that would win World War II. To some, the Casablanca Conference may seem like ancient history, but the exchange between Gen. George Marshall, U.S. Army chief of staff, and Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, chief of Britain’s Imperial General Staff, has much to teach us.

Read full article at Washington Times

Author's final draft below the fold, reprinted with permission.

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