The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Vibrant, effective responses to disaster? As powerful economic, ecological, and social imbalances work themselves out in and around our lives, we face some pretty hard times – some of us already, some of us more than others, most of us increasingly. Each of us hopes we can ameliorate the impacts on ourselves, our communities and …
Entering Interdependence on Independence Day Dear friends, So many thoughts on US Independence Day…. 1. For years there have been Declarations of INTERdependence and suggestions and organizing for INTERdependence day. I first learned about this 8 years ago and wrote it up at http://www.co-intelligence.org/interdependenceday.html Googling it today I see the movement has flourished – and …
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Christopher Hayes 4.0 out of 5 stars Strongest on Collapse Part, Very Weak on What Next…,July 1, 2012 This is one of two books I read on the plane back to DC from Seattle, the other was Van Jones’ Rebuild the Dream This is a light book with a poor bibliography, more of an essay …
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The Path to War with Iran is an analysis by Robert Merry, editor of The National Interest and a historian. (I reformatted it to highlight its main points but did not change any words or the order of his words.) Merry analogizes the current situation with that facing FDR in the late 1930s, and he …
Note the contradiction between the planned personnel cuts and the comments on the urgency of keeping the volunteer force intact and coherent. The Battle For The Military’s Future Walter Pincus The Washington Post, 13 June 2012 “The face of war, the face of how we do business, is changing.” That’s retired Marine Corps Gen. James …
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1999 Leverage_Points Donella Meadows Tip of the Hat to Venessa Miemis! Below the Line: 12 Intervention Points in Ascending Order of Effectiveness
This has been true since Vietnam (from my personal experience) and for all the money and technology that has been thrown at the IC, the return is dismal at best, criminal at worst….see my previous identifying your tribal summary as better than 99% of the intel I saw in Afghanistan. War Study: Troops Had Bad …
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