Reflections: Citizen in Search of Integrity (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

This is an updated version of the 2002 original, “Citizen in Search of a Leader.” We are now in Epoch B. Instead of leaders, we need facilitators, and the leadership comes from within the larger collective as it achieves ethical transparent consensus. Summary of Qualifications America needs a facilitator that is balanced, thoughtful, integrative, supportive …

Alessandro Politi: Need for Euro to Default As a Group, Nail the Banks and Restore Integrity of Global Economy (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Phi Beta Iota:  This brilliant analysis cuts deeply to two core points: that a tiny handful of banks have been controlling 90% of the debt and manipulating the destruction of economies — shorting the Euro as well as the US dollar — and that governments have not been acting together.  He neglects two fundamentals: the …

DefDog: Those ‘Coining the Blood of War’ Should Sacrifice Too

  Those ‘Coining the Blood of War’ Should Sacrifice Too Dallas Darling WN.com, 30 September 2011 In 1919, immediately after World War One but still during the United States’ military occupations of Russia and China, Hiram Johnson, the former reform governor of California who served in the Senate, spoke for many who feared American involvement …

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 …