Berto Jongman: Scott Atran on ISIS Prospects — Very Good While West Remains Deeply Corrupt
Cultural Intelligence
Amid the bullets, bombs and bluster, we are not only failing to stop the spread of radical Islam, but our efforts often appear to contribute to it.
Tom Atlee: Leadership as Power With
Cultural Intelligence
Co-intelligent leadership is that which enables wise “power-with”
Consider leadership not only as a quality or activity of individual human beings – those people we call “leaders” – but rather as a function or property of a system that can show up in many forms, including (but definitely not limited to) certain “leaders” in the system.
Fletcher Prouty: How CIA Really Works
Corruption, Government
How the CIA Controls President Ford
the following appeared in the 7/75 issue of Genesis:
reprinted with permission of the author
In this monstrous U.S. government today, it's not so much what comes down from the top that matters as what you can get away with from the bottom or from the middle — the least scrutinized level. (Contrary to the current CIA propaganda as preached by William Colby, Ray Cline, Victor Marchetti and Philip Agee, who say, incorrectly, “What the Agency does is ordered by the President.”)
As with the Mafia, crime is a cinch if you know the cops and the courts have been paid off. With the Central Intelligence Agency, anything goes when you have a respected boss to sanctify and bless your activities and to shield them from outside eyes.
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Bill Gertz: CIA’s Massive Counterintelligence Failure (Unprofessional for Decades)
Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Peace Intelligence
CIA fooled in massive counterintelligence failure, former officer writes
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon
The CIA was fooled by scores of double agents pretending to be working for the agency but secretly loyal to communist spy agencies during the Cold War and beyond, according to a former CIA analyst, operations officer, and historian. The large-scale deception included nearly 100 fake CIA recruits in East Germany, Cuba, as well as the Soviet Union (and later Russia) who supplied false intelligence that was passed on to senior U.S. policymakers for decades.
Je Suis Humanity Videos
Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Multiple videos (2-3 minutes) against war and state-sponsored terrorism.
Electoral Reform Grant Proposal
Cultural Intelligence
Electoral Reform: Converging the Tribes to Achieve Extreme Democracy
This proposal is rooted in both practical experience as a member of the Occupy Working Group on Electoral Reform followed by a brief run for the US presidency, accepted by the Reform Party at a candidate, both in 2011; and in broad reading as the top Amazon reviewer for non-fiction reading in 98 categories, many relevant to the obstacles to and possibilities of achieving extreme democracy. I have also published multiple articles and three Amazon Kindle books that have been highly-rated in the Civics category, but I have not had a global-level intervention reaching a global crowd across all boundaries.
