Berto Jongman: ICSR Report – As American As Apple Pie – How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the Face of Western Jihad + US Government Assassination RECAP

From the Introduction: This is an ICSR Insight written by Research Fellow, Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens On the ten year anniversary of 9/11 earlier this month ICSR published an authoritative report on Anwar al-Awlaki, As American as Apple Pie: How Anwar al-Awlaki became the Face of Western Jihad. The demise of Anwar al-Awlaki, if reports of his …

John Steiner: Declaration of Occupation of NYC + Revolution USA RECAP

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on september 29, 2011As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all …

Robert Steele: Resetting Global Governance & Capitalism

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 …

Review: We Meant Well – How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

Peter Van Buren  5.0 out of 5 stars Six Stars & Beyond–Open Heart Surgury on a Corrupt Ignorant Government,September 29, 2011 FINAL REVIEW The author himself begins the book with a reference to Dispatches (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) followed by Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition, to which I would add A Rumor of War. …

Review (Guest): Fixing the Facts – National Security and the Politics of Intelligence

Joshua Rovner 5.0 out of 5 stars It Takes Two: Strategic Intelligence and National Security Policy, September 30, 2011 By Retired Reader (New Mexico) – See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) In the U.S., the relationship between strategic intelligence and the formulation of national security policies has been to say the least complex and …

Tom Atlee: Whole System Conversations – Voice of the Whole

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 …