The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
R. D. Laing eventually decided that society is far more insane than any individual, and that the most insane among us are the ones who can adapt to this insanity without blinking and promote it as being perfectly normal. The most sane among us are those who are so sensitive that they wither under this …
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Nassir Ghaemi 5.0 out of 5 stars One Huge Point, Many Smaller Insights,August 28, 2011 When I am torn between a 4 and a 5 I read all the other reviews. I rate this book a five because it advances appreciation for the integration of psychology with history, and contributes somewhat–not the last word–to the …
Herewith is Stephen Walt’s excellent critique of US grand strategy in the Middle East since 1990. My only comment is that he omits the pernicious influences of the arrogance that emerged from our misinterpretation of our “victory” in the Cold War and does not discuss the closely related emergence of Mad Madeline’s nutty theory of …
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Jon Ronson 5.0 out of 5 stars A Serious Topic Tackled with Humanity, May 12, 2011 By Monty Archibald “HeavyMetalMonty” (west coast of Scotland) – See all my reviews ‘People who are psychopathic prey ruthlessly on others using charm, deceit, violence or other methods that allow them to get what they want. The symptoms of …
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Put another way, Simon Johnson is saying that Orientation (in the form of rigid pre-conceptions) is shaping the Observations as well as the Decisions and Actions (made in response to those observations). Any student of nonlinear dynamics and control theory will tell you that when a positive feedback loop like, Orientation’s positive shaping effect, is …
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‘Beyond Madness’: Obama’s War on Terror Setting Nuclear-Armed Pakistan on Fire Rather than seeking to stabilize Pakistan, General David Petraeus has been irresponsibly lighting matches with his shortsighted use of Special Forces and drone strikes by Fred Branfman EXCERPT 1: But rather than seeking to stabilize Pakistan, General David Petraeus has, incredibly, been irresponsibly lighting …
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3.0 out of 5 stars Three Articles, Lightweight Sequel to Fast Food Nation, July 6, 2003
