Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1263 – Public Intelligence Blog

The risk here, however, is that the American neocons and liberal interventionists remain drunk on their dreams of a permanent U.S. global hegemony that doesn’t broach any rivalry from Russia, China or any other potential challenger to America’s “full-spectrum dominance.” If these war hawks don’t sober up – and if Obama remains their reluctant enabler – the chances that the crises in Ukraine or Syria could escalate into a nuclear showdown cannot be ignored. Thus, Russia’s move last week was truly a game-changer; and Putin is no longer playing games. One can only hope Obama can break free from the belligerent neocons and liberal war hawks.

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2015/10/052015/10/04

CounterPunch: WikiLeaks vs. the Empire – the Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth

Ethics, Uncategorized

Wikileaks vs. the Empire: the Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth

To the rulers of the world in Washington and Europe, Syria’s true crime is not the oppressive nature of its government but its independence from American and Israeli power – just as Iran’s true crime is its independence, and Russia’s true crime is its independence, and China’s true crime is its independence. In an American-owned world, independence is intolerable.

2015/10/052015/10/06

Owl: Chinese Aircraft Carrier in Syria? UPDATE 1 Debka Lies…

02 China

Aircraft come in November.

A Chinese aircraft carrier docks at Tartus to support Russian-Iranian military buildup

Chinese warplanes to join Russian air strikes in Syria. Russia gains Iraqi air base

UPDATE 1: Debka lies… No one can find the carrier, no photo of it anywhere near Syria.

Chinese naval expert denies PLA joining fight against ISIS

China's Main Mission: South China Sea, Not Syria

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2015/10/042015/10/02

Graphic: State-USAID Joint Strategic Goal Framework

02 Diplomacy, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace

Source: U.S. Department of State-USAID FY 2014–2017 Joint Strategic Plan

2015/10/042015/10/04

David Brin: The Half Life of Secrets

Ethics, Government

Surveillance: A Golden Age or Dark Days?

My friend and info-perceptive wiseman Peter Swire, who helped to formulate the post-Snowden NSA reforms issued by the Obama Administration, has a series of articles and white papers of interest to anyone who is serious about the core topic of our era.

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2015/10/042015/10/03

Michel Bauwens: Workers Becoming Powerful

03 Economy, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics, Government

Workers are about to become much more powerful: How will capitalism adapt ?

In Britain, three basic things would lay the groundwork for a more controlled shift of pricing power towards the workforce and away from employers: the right to a written contract; the obligation to publish salary bands for specific job titles in private-sector firms; and limiting temporary contracts to genuinely temporary or seasonal tasks.

2015/10/042015/10/04

Berto Jongman: CIA’s Digital Innovation…

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

CIA goes live with new cyber directorate, massive internal reorganization

The DDI’s formation implies that the CIA is increasingly bent on securing 21st century relevance on the overall American spying landscape, where other agencies — namely the cyber- and electronic-surveillance-focused National Security Agency (NSA) — have emerged as dominant shapers of U.S. intelligence policy.

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