Antechinus: Syrian Kurdish Democracy — Working!

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Antechinus
Antechinus

Syrian Kurds have launched an unlikely radical experiment in governance without hierarchy, patriarchy or capitalism.

Their leaders developed their guiding philosophy out of a long engagement with Murray Bookchin, who fused Marxist and anarchist ideals into a vision of a world where citizens' assemblies supplant state bureaucracy and environmentalism is king. Debbie Bookchin told HuffPost her father insisted “we could only heal our relationship with the natural world when all forms of hierarchy were abolished.”

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Worth a Look: Beyond Misinformation – What Science Says About the Destruction of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2, and 7

Civil Society, Ethics
Purchase Page
Purchase Page

Beyond Misinformation: What Science Says About the Destruction of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2, and 7 is AE911Truth’s comprehensive, 50-page guide to the World Trade Center evidence.

Chock-full of the most accurate information and analysis, and with references to dozens of scholarly papers and videos, Beyond Misinformation is the perfect starting point for anyone wishing to understand the destruction of the World Trade Center, and a valuable resource for those already immersed in the subject.

Kevin Barnett: Islamophobia Based on False Flag Attacks Specifically Designed to Create a Global Police State

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Peace Intelligence
Kevin Barrett
Kevin Barrett

Islamophobia is creating a global police state

It's a neocon-fabricated “state of emergency” built on demonizing Muslims

Hitler built a German police state by demonizing Jews (and Slavs, Gypsies, communists, modern artists, and lots of other folks). Lenin and Stalin built a Russian police state by demonizing “the class enemy.” Today, neoconservatives and their allies are even more ambitious. They are building a global police state – a totalitarian New World Order – by demonizing Muslims.

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Coleen Rowley: Another Illegal War is Insane

Civil Society, Ethics
Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley

Bush really lied when he claimed “we'll fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here.” The wars have only produced more death and destruction, failed states, hatred and terrorism worldwide which has not only destroyed large parts of the Middle East (much of which, before US-NATO intervention, was previously secular and opposed to radical Saudi Arabian-Al Qaeda-ISIS style terrorism) but terrorism that is now beginning to reach Europe and Russia. I warned, long ago, that Bush's launching the illegal war on Iraq would prove counterproductive.  A recipe for disaster, the longest war in US history just keeps enlarging its war zone.  It cannot be long before the US suffers attacks like those in Paris, Beirut, Baghdad and which apparently blew up the Russian airliner.

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OpenDemocracy: Robert Steele, American Intelligence and National Defense 2.0

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, DoD, Ethics, Government, Innovation, Officers Call, Strategy

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Robert David Steele 10 November 2015

An Open Source (Technologies) Agency, far removed from the secret intelligence world, would radically reduce wars and illegal immigration, increase trade and shared prosperity, and convert the USA into a “Smart Nation”.

On 06/17/11, I wrote the first installment of National intelligence and national defense, published at the Campaign for Liberty, suggesting that we could both cut the secret intelligence budget by three quarters, and radically increase the amount of open source decision-support (as opposed to secret mass surveillance).

Of course nothing happened, but now, to my enormous delight, I am hearing that there is a very tentative discussion in some of the darkest corners of the US government of a proposal to terminate three of the secret agencies that reside within the Department of Defense (DoD) – the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the National Geospatial Agency (NGA). This should happen, if not in the closing year of the Obama Administration, then in 2017 under the first Independent president and a diversified Congress in which Independents, Greens, and Libertarians and others (e.g. Constitution, Working Families) win the 20-30 seats being vacated.

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Robert Steele: UNHINGED — Two Books on Terror Reviewed (Rebuttal, a Book of Lies & Broken!, Truth as Fiction)

07 Other Atrocities, Ethics, Officers Call
Robert David STEELE Vivas
Robert David STEELE Vivas

UNHINGED: American Terror, Torture, & Treason

SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/CIA-UNHINGED

Robert David Steele

PDF (5 Pages): UNHINGED TORTURE as published with cover matter

Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program by Porter Goss et al, Naval Institute Press, 352 pp., £14.99, September, ISBN 978 1 591 14587 5

Broken!: A true story of terror, torture, and treason, in fictional form to avoid legal retaliation against those who were there by Michael Kearns and Ronald Solomon Amazon, 504 pp. £12.48, July, ISBN 978 0 996 53500 7

Two books – one a book of lies marketed as the truth, the other real-world experience disguised as fiction – offer us an opportunity to understand how easily individuals, organizations, and entire countries can become “unhinged” – deranged and divorced from all that they claim to hold sacred, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…and the due process of law that underlies these goals.

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Yoda: Sustainable Development Cost Estimates

#OSE Open Source Everything, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, Ethics, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence, Threats, United Nations & NGOs

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Cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

$1.3 trillion a year or 11% of GDP in international dollars. This assumes conventional financing and conventional technologies and conventional processes.

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