Koko: Teacher Burns Herself to Death in Playground

Koko Signs:  Koko sad. Governments fiddle, people burn. Teacher dies in France after setting herself on fire An apparently depressed maths teacher in southern France has died after setting herself on fire in the playground of her secondary school. Students and teachers rushed to help the woman, 44, after she doused herself with petrol during …

Marcus Aurelius: WSJ on Viet-Nam War – Lack of Integrity

Well, this is harsh w/r/t Westy… Wall Street Journal October 8, 2011 Pg. C5 Bookshelf The War Over The Vietnam War By Max Boot Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam. By Lewis Sorley, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 416 pp., $30 September 2006. Violence levels are spiking in Iraq. Every day brings reports of more suicide bombings, …

Chuck Spinney: Is Israel on a Grand-Strategic Pathway to Ruin?

In the below essay, famed Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery, a veteran of both the Irgun and Knesset, a hero of the 1948 War and true Israeli patriot, paints a portrait of Israel’s unfolding grand-strategic ruin. While Israel’s penchant for self destruction is self evident in Avnery’s exposition, the extent of Israel’s insanity becomes stunningly …

Robert Steele: REVOLUTION NOW! Thinking About Revolution (Trump Revolution 23)

2011 THINKING ABOUT REVOLUTION Robert David Steele Intelligence Program, Marine Corps University, AY 1992-1993 Updated to Include Pre-Conditions of Revolution Graphic for USA Today (2011) Drawn from 1976 Thesis: Theory, Risk Assessment, and Internal War: A Framework for the Observation of Revolutionary Potential where all appropriate citations and data operationalizations can be found. Original As …

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 …

Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: G. I. Wilson

Gary I. Wilson: G.I. Wilson is a retired Marine Corps Colonel and combat veteran with 33 years of military service and several years of experience in law enforcement-emergency services. He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Marine Corps Intelligence Association (MCIA), Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), American Society …