The 2017 Global Peace Index finds that the world became more peaceful in the last year, however, over the last decade it has become significantly less peaceful.
Phi Beta Iota: As with pollution, this index is very misleading. If countries were colored by their funding of and responsibility for violence, the USA would be far and away the most violent in the world.
READ THIS WELL-WRITTEN BOOK!!! Why? For a reality check. Americans, even those who work for the federal government, have a distorted view of reality. Here's what one U.S. government employee said about this work: “I can't possibly believe that the United States of America would send a CIA official to Cuba to poison school children's milk.” Well, Verne Lyon worked for the CIA, that Agency sent him to Cuba, and the CIA ordered him to poison school children's milk. (See pp. 103-104 ).
There is a strong surge in interest in taking down Amazon and Google. This is a good thing — and of course includes the end of #GoogleGestapo including the censorship, manipulation, crowd-stalking, and digital assassination that characterize Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, among others.