Eagle: Chris Hedges on Con vs. Con

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Idiocy
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300 Million Talons…

Con vs. Con By Chris Hedges

The battle between a bankrupt liberal class and the left will color the remainder of the presidential race. What is predictable, and sad, is that so many self-identified progressives and their organizations will once again serve as the pawns of neoliberalism. They will practice censorship. Progressive sites in the primaries refused to reprint columns by critics such as Paul Street, who did not see Sanders as the new political messiah. And as we move closer and closer to the election, these sites will become ever more hostile to the left and ever more craven in their defense of Clinton.

James Tracy: Psychological Warfare and the “False Flag” Meme

Cultural Intelligence, IO Deeds of War, Misinformation & Propaganda, Officers Call
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James Tracy

Psychological Warfare and the “False Flag” Meme

False flag operations and assassinations are a central component of the elaborate psychological warfare campaign waged on the American public to justify the so-called “global war on terrorism,” and the events of September 11, 2001 are this project’s cornerstone.

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Patrick Cockburn: The Age of Disintegration – Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource Curse, and a Fragmenting World

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Patrick Cockburn

The Age of Disintegration 

Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource Curse, and a Fragmenting World 

By Patrick Cockburn, TomDispatch, 28 June 2016

Everywhere nation states are enfeebled or collapsing, as authoritarian leaders battle for survival in the face of mounting external and internal pressures.   . . .   A common explanation for the rise of Islamic resistance movements is that the socialist, secularist, and nationalist opposition had been crushed by the old regimes' security forces, while the Islamists were not.   . . .   Encouraged by Washington and Brussels, twenty-first-century neoliberalism has made unequal societies ever more unequal and helped transform already corrupt regimes into looting machines.

Antechinus: CIA Weapons for ISIS Now on Sale in Jordan

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude
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CIA weapons for Syrian rebels sold on Jordan's black market

Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials. FBI officials believe some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman.