Review: 935 Lies – The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity

Charles Lewis 5.0 out of 5 stars Title Short-Changes Value — This is One of the Most Important Books of Our Time, July 12, 2014 I’m not thrilled with the title because it implies to the browser that the book is about the 935 now-documented lies that led to the war in Iraq, and that …

Hal Berghel: Comments on Intelligence Leadership, Moral Hazards, Manning, Snowden, & Wikileaks

Leadership Failures in the National Security Complex Current NSA forecast: continued Snowden flurries with no end in sight. No one blames the hardworking NSA employees for the latest series of gaffes: it’s the feckless leadership and the politics that got them there that are responsible for our current difficulties PDF (4 Pages): Hal on Leadership …

Betty Boop: Tomgram on Nick Turse, Secret Wars, & Black Ops Blowback — US Government Learning Impaired & Morally Challenged

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback Nick Turse is the author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, just now out in paperback. Tom: These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington’s global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a new …

Chuck Spinney: When a KGB President Lectures the USA — And Holds the Moral High Ground…Say What?

Who Benefits From America’s State of Perpetual War? Putin Lectures Obama by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, COUNTERPUNCH, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 That our Noble Peace Prize winning President and the Congress needed a rational lecture [also attached below] on the need for a little common sense in foreign policy, from a graduate of the KGB, says a …

Anthony Judge: Indifference to the Suffering of Others Occupying the moral and ethical high ground through doublespeak

Indifference to the Suffering of Others Occupying the moral and ethical high ground through doublespeak Introduction General indifference to suffering Varieties of indifference to suffering Complicity of bystanders: standing by and doing nothing Schadenfreude: enjoying the suffering of others Cultivating indifference to suffering through doublespeak Enabling suffering through religious doublespeak Enabling suffering through legal doublespeak …

Chuck Spinney: Fed Up With Larry Summers + Immoral Economics RECAP

IMO … Greider is one of the most astute observers of the Fed and the pro-plutocratic antics of the Neo-Liberal Democrats. Fed Up With Larry Summers by William Greider Extract: Don’t be misled. Those who dig into his old speeches and pronouncements will find rich material to make the case for rejecting him. The question …