Naomi Wolf: Federalization of State & Local Brutality Begins Second US War of Independence from Tyranny

Executive Summary: Occupy has three demands: 1.  Get money out of politics 2.  Reverse the legalization of the corruption and crime in both banking and related industries (e.g. military-industrial complex. 3.  Close loopholes that allow Congress to legally cheat the public at every turn by passing laws favoring their own investments. Federal Government has federalized …

Graphic: US Combat Veteran Unemployment & Suicide [Current Suicide Headline Links Added]

Source of original graphic (blue). Red added by Phi Beta Iota. Sources for suicide below.  The US Government lies to the public with deliberate manipulation of government statistics.  The actual unemployment rate in the USA today is closer to 25%, and from this we speculate that the actual unemployment rate in the USA for veterans, …

Behavioural Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motives Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict by Andrew Mackay and Steve Tatham ; foreword by Stanley McChrystal.

        The Small Wars Journal Blog has a post previewing a new book by Andrew Mackay and Steve Tatham. Behavioural Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motives Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict considers how the West’s Post Cold War conflicts have been fought amongst people rather than between armies. From publisher’s description: “These people, amongst …

Paul Fernhout: G. William Domhoff on Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence

Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence by G. William Domhoff< March 2005 One of the distinctive features of left activists is their willingness to go to the streets to win people to their causes and create the political pressures necessary for the social changes they advocate. Studies in social psychology and sociology support this strategy by …