Chuck Spinney: Saudi Arabia Over the Cliff?

08 Wild Cards, Peace Intelligence
Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

There are signs of mounting discontent in the Saudi princes over the rule of King Salman and the preferences he has given to his favorite son Prince Mohammed bin Salmon( age 30), who is architect of the bloody and floundering Saudi intervention in Yemen and has been named Deputy Crown Prince, making Mohammed, at least technically, second in succession to the Saudi throne and in front of many older and more experienced contenders for the throne.

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Berto Jongman: Pepe Escobar on China’s Eurasian Industrial Growth Plan in Aftermath of Successful Anti-Corruption Campaign

Commercial Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

berto smallWho Wants a Third World War?

What Washington really craves is some form of coercion that would lead Beijing to open its coveted financial market to the mega-speculative financial casino of the US Big Bank system. That is not happening – as the White House has absolutely no leverage on the matter.

 

George Por: How the Internet’s Collective Human Intelligence Could Outsmart AI

Collective Intelligence
George Por
George Por

How the Internet's Collective Human Intelligence Could Outsmart AI

Collective intelligence is the opposite of artificial intelligence

My idea is to use a universal categorization system that would be very supple like natural language; you can say anything you want to describe a document. You are not obliged by any kind of rule to describe it this way or another.

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Philip Giraldi: The CIA’s Torture Defenders

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism
Philip Giraldi
Philip Giraldi

The CIA’s Torture Defenders

An all-star cast teams up to spin their enhanced interrogation regime.

The seven men who contributed to the book (George Tenet, Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, John McLaughlin, Michael Morell, Jose Rodriguez, John Rizzo, and Philip Mudd) are, with the exception of Mudd, quite likely guilty of war crimes …   There are also a number of out-and-out lies that undercut the credibility of the book, including the repeated suggestion that CIA was working flat out on the terrorism problem before 9/11.

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