Journal: Cognitive Dissonance, Military Suicides, and an Alternative Interpretation of the Fort Hood Deaths

For over many years now Phi Beta Iota has been emphasizing both the inappropriate secrecy and obscurity contrived for our dead and wounded, and the almost total black-out on both amputees (many of them multiple amputees) and suicides. We now know that Gulf I brought back over 250,000 disabled veterans, and that the toxic brew …

Worth a Look: Selections on Terrorism

Berto Jongman recommends…. New jihad code threatens al Qaeda Radicalisation Processes Leading to Acts of Terrorism CSCP Papers:The evolution of Al-Qaedaism: Ideology, terrorists, and appeal CSCP Papers: Jihadi terrorists in Europe, their characteristics and the circumstances in which they joined the jihad: an exploratory study Other CSCP publications:  Jihadi terrorists in Europe and Global Salafi …

Journal: Out of Touch with Reality III

Chuck Spinney Sends… America’s diplomatic recipe for winning the hearts and minds of “furriners” in the 21st Century: Mix –  Blind unreasoning fear with the Domestic politics of privatizing embassy protection and the Domestic politics of huge construction contracts into neat grand-strategic soufflé, then bake it in the domestic political-economic oven of heated by the coals of the …