Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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CounterPunch: Hillary Clinton’s Race Problem

Cultural Intelligence

counterpunch squareHillary Clinton’s Race Problem

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And while Hillary Clinton can whitewash her record (and that of her husband) when it comes to issues of race and injustice, the inescapable fact is that the “liberal” Clinton presided over the expansion of the for-profit prison industry, the construction of the mass incarceration state, the explosion of life sentences for drug offenders, the expansion of the death penalty, and countless other socially destructive phenomena that continue to ravage Black America to this day.

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Mongoose: Counterintelligence Failure — FBI Goes After Diplomat — Stupid Agents Using Stupid Tools

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Law Enforcement
Mongoose
Mongoose

Stupidity, both technical and human, looms large in the US Government.

When diplomats get punished for doing their jobs

The threat that government surveillance and national-security investigations pose for private citizens has been hotly debated for the past decade. Less understood is the damage done to government officials themselves when they fall into the dragnet. Raphel’s experience is a case study in what can happen when the government launches a toxic investigation without adequate due diligence.

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Berto Jongman: The Facts on Global Migration

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Global Migration? Actually, The World Is Staying Home

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The number of migrating migrants between 2010 and 2015 (36.5 million) is more than 8 million fewer than in the previous five-year period (45 million). The global migration rate reached an historic peak between 1990 and 1995, a time when the Iron Curtain had fallen, Afghanistan had descended into civil war and there was genocide in Rwanda. The 0.5 percent figure for the last five years is the smallest value since 1960.   . . .   What distinguishes a refugee from a migrant? One of them migrates voluntarily, while the other is forced to do so. However, the UN migration figures toss both categories into the same pot.

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