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 …

Penguin: Truth Tellers versus Triumph of the Lie

Found this while browing, in comments to Robert Ringer’s Triumph of the Lie, itself worth reading. Doug Casey  .. Douglas “Doug” Casey is an American-born free market economist, best-selling financial author, and international investor and entrepreneur. Gerald Celente  .. Gerald Celente is an American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author …

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. …

Winslow Wheeler: Elitist Corruption on the Defense Budget

Just as the leaders of US national security thinking led America into the war in Iraq based on the false premise of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction and reckless, but politically powerful, rhetoric, Washington’s elite are now circling the wagons around the defense budget.  They are using the same disingenuous tactics and the same kind …

G.I. Wilson: Killer Drones, Moral Disengagement, + War Crimes RECAP

The Psychology of Killer Drones – action against our foes; reaction affecting us G. I. Wilson Fabius Maximus, 28 September 2011 Summary:  We now have enough experience with drone warfare to study its effects.  Just as in physics, our actions affect ourselves as well as our targets. Social science research shows that drones are a gateway to moral disengagement dehumanization, …