David Swanson: #NoWar2016 – Declaration of Peace — Invitation to Individuals and Organizations to Sign

What Could Unite a Larger Peace Movement? Oh, This! In a time of division and disagreement, when people who all agree on something important sometimes spend more time bickering with each other than working on their collective cause, is it possible to craft an agenda that brings them together and adds to their numbers? It …

Robert Steele: Final Memorandum on 2016 Election

Please share as broadly as you wish.  I continue to believe that Paul Ryan and Donald Trump should come together on  two big issues facing us all: electoral reform and individual (student, medical, other) debt renunciation/re-negotiation. On the latter point economist Michael Hudson has done Nobel Prize worthy analytics.  May God Bless America, despite all …

Owl: False Flag Red Alert – Hillary Clinton Panics – Potential for Murders Intended to Frame Donald Trump and Twist Narrative with CNN Complicity

FALSE FLAG RED ALERT: Media plotting with Clinton operatives to gun down democrats and blame it on Trump My widely-shared article predicting leftists bombings of government buildings was published several days before the GOP headquarters in North Carolina was firebombed by violent leftists. In my original story entitled VOTERS WARNED: You’ve already lost America… this …

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part III in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the third of three monographs focused on …

Robert Steele: Memorandum for Donald Trump

Note: I have attempted to persuade, in this order, the following presidential candidates of the need for electoral reform: Sanders, O’Mally, Bloomberg, and Kasich. Donald Trump is our last best hope for electoral reform. MEMORANDUM FOR MR. DONALD TRUMP 18 October 2016 Background: I wrote the first article, “Counter-Coup: How Trump Can Win,” for Counterpunch, …

Berto Jongman: Nicolas Kayser-Bril – “Truth is a Niche Market” – Publishers Have No Interest in the Truth

This essay was written for the Retreat Conference 2016 organized at Athens, Greece, on September 24th, 2016. Data-driven journalism in the post-truth public sphere The novelty of the 2010’s is the disdain of public figures for the truth. Michael Gove, quoted above, justified lying not by producing an excuse immediatly as Machiavelli advised, but by …

Berto Jongman: Earth Wilderness – 10% Gone, Rest by 2050?

Earth’s wilderness could be lost by 2050, tenth already destroyed – study Writing for the journal Current Biology, researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society have revealed that over the last 20 or so years, the Earth has lost 3.3 million square kilometers (1.27 million square miles) of wilderness – an area twice the size of …