The Uri Avnery has written a simple and profound portrait of how the differing narratives have hijacked the Orientations in the OODA loops of all the players in the Arab – Israeli conflict, including particularly the self-styled ‘honest brokers' in the United States, as well as the belligerents in the Arab – Israeli Conflict. IMO, that is why he concludes the intractability of the conflict a fundamentally a psychiatric problem, at least in so far as one believes the fiction there such a thing as a ‘peace process' being promoted by the United States.
I agree with Avnery's diagnosis. His subject is one of incestuous amplification the OODA loop and how it guarantees at mad rush to folly — process that I explained and explored the consequences of in The Madness of King George Revisited. This goes to heart of America's problem that prevents American citizens from understanding the real conflict of interests that is driving this conflict. The author has credibility: Uri Avnery is Israel's leading peace activist, a former member of the Knesset, and a hero of the 1948 War. CS
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1. Any article listing the top 10 of anything will be widely read.
2. A poll of people in 65 countries, including the United States, finds that the United States is overwhelmingly considered the greatest threat to peace in the world. The consensus would have been even stronger had the United States itself not been polled, because the 5 percent of humanity living here is largely convinced that the other 95% of humanity — that group with experience being threatened or attacked by the United States — is wrong. After all, our government in the U.S. tells us it's in favor of peace. Even when it bombs cities, it does it for peace. It's hard for people under the bombs to see that. We in the U.S. have a better perspective.
This is a very important article, and the points it makes deserve your careful attention. The idea that for increasing the education budget by $63 billion we could give every student in a public university a four year education for free would do the country more good than almost any other similar expenditure! Just as the GI Bill recipients created the middle class of the 40s through 70s, such a program would heal the devastation of the last 30 years, particularly the last 10. We piss away $63 billion on the military industrial/security industries every year with studied abandon. Three examples come immediately to mind: The F-35 attack aircraft, or the piece I published a while back on the cargo planes in Afghanistan that were simply being abandoned never having been used. Or the opulent command center built by the Army for the Marines, reputedly the best command HQ ever built, that was never used, and never will be. This is a political idea whose achievement depends on citizen effort and, I ask you to write your Representative and Senators, telling them you support this and so should they. This is a game changer. Click through to see the chart. A mere $62.6 billion dollars!
This is just a piece of a larger whole. (See: http://www.wingia.com/en/services/about_the_end_of_year_survey/7/ for the full report.) But one that deserves our close attention. The source of this information and the quality of the survey are authoritative. I don't know about you but I am not comfortable having the world think the greatest threat to the peace is! the United States. Click through to see the chart listing the nations in order.
This is a clear example of the Schism Trend; Mississippi has become a bastion of Theocratic Rightist culture, and white supremacy. It is amongst the most violent, obese, least educated, poorest, most fundamentalist, and most unhealthy, and shortest lived states in the union. There are large parts of Mississippi that are essentially second world. This is not happening by chance. It results from consci! ous choices, and is deliberate. Here is an example of what I mean. (See At the Cost of Your Life: Social Value, Social Wellness. http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2813%2900249-8/fulltext.) This schismatic process is a major trend, creating two very different essentially hostile cultures.
Expansion of Mississippi Medicaid Unlikely in 2014
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS – Sun Herald (Mississippi Gulf Coast)
Have you seen the economic recovery? I haven’t either. But it is bound to be around here somewhere, because the National Bureau of Economic Research spotted it in June 2009, four and one-half years ago.
It is a shy and reclusive recovery, like the “New Economy” and all those promised new economy jobs. I haven’t seen them either, but we know they are here, somewhere, because the economists said so.
