The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Posted by Contributing Editor Berto Jongman Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. By Naomi Klein NewStatesman, 29 October 2013 In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems …
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How the 99% Are Using Lateral Power to Create a Global Revolution It’s happened before, in 1848 and in 1968. The youth of the world took to the streets to protest the injustices of autocratic political regimes and rapacious business interests and to demand the most basic human right to participate as equal citizens in …
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Is making a policy decision in the “National Interest” smart anymore? Probably not. Here’s something I’ve been thinking about. I’ve been grappling with a simple question. Is the use of national interest, as the basis of security and foreign policy, a dumb idea in the present context? National interest is a construct from the realism …
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The Financial System Doesn’t Just Enable Theft, It Is Theft It’s not just inflation that is theft. Charles Hugh Smith Of Two Minds, 31 July 2013 It is painfully self-evident that our financial system doesn’t just enable theft, it is theft by nature and design. If you doubt this, please follow along.Inflation is theft, but …
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John Nichols and Rbbert W. McChesney 4.0 out of 5 stars Sickening at Two Levels — Superb Indictment of Periphery, Completely Avoids Two Party Tyranny Issue, July 19, 2013 This book makes me sick at two levels. Level 1: It is the best treatment available of what I and many others have been saying for …
New studies: ‘Conspiracy theorists’ sane; government dupes crazy, hostile Dr. Kevin Barrett PressTV, 13 July 2013 Recent studies by psychologists and social scientists in the US and UK suggest that contrary to mainstream media stereotypes, those labeled “conspiracy theorists” appear to be saner than those who accept the official versions of contested events. In short, …
Empathy Note #2: Imagining Real National Security – Empathy versus Empire We keep wondering: ‘Why do they hate us?’ Well, maybe some people are mad because we are doing things that we would regard as unjustified and heinous acts of war if anyone dared to do them to us. — Stephen M. Walt in Foreign …
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