Amitai Etzioni: Reflections for Public Intellectuals & Other Contributions

03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Methods & Process, Policies, Strategy, Threats

Amitai Etizioni Et  Al (33 pages)

Amitai Etzioni: Reflections of a Sometime-Public Intellectual

Jacob S. Hacker, You Might Be A Public Intellectual If…A Checklist for Political Scientists, a Challenge for Political Science

Gary Orfield, A Life in Civil Rights

Lorenzo Morris, Rules for Public Intellectuals

Theodore J. Lowi, Public Intellectuals and the Public Interest–Toward a Politics of Political Science as a Calling

See Also by Amitai Etzioni:

1990  Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics

1994  Spirit Of Community: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda

1995  New Communitarian Thinking: Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities

1998  The New Golden Rule: Community And Morality In A Democratic Society

2004  From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations

2003  My Brother's Keeper: A Memoire and a Message

2004  The Common Good

2009  New Common Ground: A New America, New World

 Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman for the find.

 

Koko: While Americans Protest, Greeks Take Action – Public Campaign to Track and Expose Speculators

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Strategy
Koko

CRIMINAL FRAUD CHARGE REPORT AGAINST SPECULATORS AND THEIR GREEK ACCOMPLICES & PARTNERS

Follow the Online Trading of Greek & other EU PIIGS CDS Bankruptcy Defaults. Discover how all EU PIIGS Govt Bond Spreads, Interest Rates & Govt Lending Programs are daily Manipulated

Submit your Complaint, attaching any Document or other Proof of Fraud.

Bank Docs, Receipts, Greek Bonds Buy/Sell Orders & Order Forms, Short Selling Proof Docs, Transactions & Settlements Information & Docs, CDS Contracts, Agreements, Banks, Companies, Investment & Hedge Funds details, Speculators, Accomplices & Partners details, Greek Partners, Intermediaries & Govt Officers details, Corruption Proofs, Articles, Blogs, etc.

SPANISH CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST RATING AGENCIES : A dozen Spanish Layers, represented by Gonzalo Boye, following to our lawsuit, charged with criminal fraud the US Rating Agencies Moody's, Standard & Poors and Fitch Ratings.

Phi Beta Iota:  We anticipate the eventual eradication of Goldman Sachs particularly, and the New York banks generally.  Governments and the public are beginning to recognize the possibilities of mass legal action and the value of both the re-nationalization of property and the confiscation of third-country assets acquired by Goldman Sachs as a result of its fraud.

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2011 Robert Steele: Intelligence in the private sector – Ethics and efficiency in uncertain times / Inteligencia en el sector privado – la ética y la eficiencia en tiempos de incertidumbre

Cynthia McKinney: US Finances Terrorists in Libya

08 Wild Cards, Corruption, DoD, Government, IO Deeds of Peace, Military, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Strategy, Threats
Cynthia McKinney

This week, I will begin with the scandal of Operation Gladio that climaxed in the murder of former Italian Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, who on the day of his kidnapping, was to announce a coalition government that would include the Italian Communist Party. Leader of the Christian Democratic Party at that time, Francesco Cossiga, admits in the 1992 BBC Timewatch documentary about Operation Gladio, that he chose to “sacrifice” Moro “for the good of the Republic.” Not unlike the targeted assassinations that our government engages in around the world, where someone extrajudicially makes decisions on who lives and who dies. In the three-part documentary, Cossiga states that the decision caused his hair to turn white.

Operation Gladio is the ugly real-life tale of the U.S. government's decision to hire members of the state security apparatus of various European countries, and in collaboration with recruited community allies, wreak terror on innocent citizens by blowing up train stations, shooting up customers in grocery stores, even killing police officers in order to convince populations in Europe to give up their rights in exchange for certain security measures and enhanced state power. Yes, Operation Gladio, along with Operation Northwoods and U.S. policy toward Libya, show us that the United States is willing to create terror groups in order to justify a fight against terrorists! Sadly, this has become the modus operandi of our government in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Europe and Africa. And the U.S. government, after 9/11/01 has become like a “Gladio laboratory” of state policies that rip the Bill of Rights to shreds and lie to the public.

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The beginning of the end of Operation Gladio occurred when the existence of the U.S. program was revealed. Characteristically, instead of stopping such insanity, the Europeans joined in creating multiple other “Operations Gladio.” Placed in this context, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya's second installment in a 4-part series reveals how U.S. policy in Libya falls right in line with U.S. actions in the past. In my opinion, Libya will not be the last location for such illegal activities unless we stop our government.

Along with French videographer Julien Teil, Nazemroaya weaves the incredible-but-true scenario of U.S. finance of alleged terrorists, wanted by Interpol, who became the chief protagonists in the NATO genocide currently unfolding in Libya.

Mahdi, Don Debar, and I will discuss this piece and more tonight on KPFK's Freedom Now starting at PACIFIC time 5:00 pm. Tune in to KPFK.org and listen live or I'll send you the link for listening at another time at your convenience.

Here is the Teil/Nazemroaya piece:

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Washington is Conquering Africa using France, Human Rights, Terrorism, and the National Endowment for Democracy

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Julien Teil

A repeat of the disorder and pandemonium generated inside Afghanistan is in the works for the continent of Africa.   The United States, with the help of Britain, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, created the brutal Taliban and then eventually waged war on its Taliban allies. Similarly, across Africa, the United States and its allies are creating a new series of future enemies to fight, but after initially working with them or using them to sow the seeds of chaos in Africa.

Washington has literally been helping fund insurgencies and regime change projects in Africa.  “Human rights” and “democratization” are also being used as a smokescreen for colonialism and war.  So-called human rights and humanitarian organizations are now partners in this imperialist project against Africa

France and Israel:  Is Washington Outsourcing its Dirty Work in Africa?

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Robert Steele: Resetting Global Governance & Capitalism

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, Hacking, InfoOps (IO), Key Players, Methods & Process, Officers Call, Policies, Resilience, Strategy, Threats
Robert David STEELE Vivas

The next 90-180 days may well bring the creative destruction of predatory immoral capitalism and the emergence of resilient moral capitalism.

“We are on the verge of an economic collapse which starts, let’s say, in Greece. The financial system remains extremely vulnerable.” (George Soros, 2011)

What is collapsing is the predatory Western system of financial terrorism against governments and publics.  This is an opportunity for creative destruction and the renaissance of the Greek economy as well as the restoration of integrity – trust – as a foundation for a prosperous world at peace.  In the process, capitalism will morph from top-down manipulative finance to bottom-up resilient community capitalism.  It will also be redirected from a focus on making toxic things for the one billion rich to making useful lasting things for the five billion poor whose annual income is four times that of the one billion rich, four trillion dollars a year.  Those governments that adapt to reality-based hybrid collaborative resilience will prosper–those that persist in trying to micro-manage that which they do not understand and those whom they cannot control, will fail.

Below are two current articles and two of the most popular book reviews on this web site, as well as an updated Reflections on Integrity.

The real Greek economy: owners, rentiers and opportunists
Aristos Doxiadis, OpenEconomy, 23 September 2010

California and Bust
Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair, November 2011

Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Review: The Genius of the Beast–A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism

Journal: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED

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Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Positive)

Mini-Me Greek Default both Inevitable and Necessary

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 11 Society, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of Peace, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Strategy
Who? Mini-Me?

Mini-Me:  Not only is the Greek default both inevitable and necessary, it may be the best possible catalyst for a new financial system combined with a massive global legal attack on Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and others that–with the full complicity of the US Government–“exploded” the global economy.  Cases are starting to pop up that include racketeering charges (triple damages).  My best guess is that Goldman Sachs, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Federal Reserve will cease to exist within 4-6 years.

YouTube: The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes

Why Greece Should Default on Debt and Leave the Euro

 

Tom Atlee: Whole System Conversations – Voice of the Whole

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Augmented Reality, Blog Wisdom, Collaboration Zones, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), IO Sense-Making, Key Players, Methods & Process, Open Government, Policies, Strategy, Threats
Tom Atlee

Whole System Conversations – and the Voice of the Whole

WHO PARTICIPATES IN “WHOLE SYSTEM” CONVERSATIONS? – PARTISANS, STAKEHOLDERS, DOMAINS, AND CITIZENS

by Tom Atlee

Consciously convened conversations have many functions. Many seek simply to get people talking with each other. Others try to bring together what they call “the whole system” to address that system's collective issues or dreams. Who is involved in these “whole system” conversations?

A “whole system”, in this case, involves all the parties who play – or could play – roles in some social unit or situation. The social unit could be a family or relationship, a group or organization, a community or a whole society. A situation might be, on the one hand, an issue, a problem, or a conflict – or, on the other hand, an inquiry, an opportunity, a shift, or simply a periodic reflection about what's happening. We can convene conversations around any of these things.

So how do we decide who the parties or players are? How do we “cut the pie” of the whole system? And, if we're ambitious, how do we elicit a “voice of the whole”?

I see four different approaches to defining who “a whole system” includes. Each approach has its own rationale and appropriate usages. They are not mutually exclusive, but are usually used more or less separately. Perhaps being aware of them and building synergies between them would enhance the power and wisdom of our conversations. These approaches include:

Read full essay.

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John Robb: China’s Growing Spy Threat + China RECAP

02 China, Advanced Cyber/IO, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), Peace Intelligence, Policies, Strategy, Threats
John Robb

China’s Growing Spy Threat

Alex Newman

The Diplomat, 19 September 2011

The Chinese government’s ‘vacuum cleaner’ approach to espionage is worrying foreign governments, companies and overseas dissidents. They’re right to be concerned.

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Phi Beta Iota:  China graduates more honors students from high school than the USA graduates from high school across the board.  China has also made the leap away from English toward all the other languages that the US refuses to be serious about.  China is further along toward being a “Smart Nation,” aided by its outposts in Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, as well as Diasphora, while the US diddles around not even understanding its own preconditions of revolution.  There is only one non-zero solution, and the US government, two-party tyranny, and Wall Street have absolutely no interest in going there.

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