The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Jessica Auchter 5.0 out of 5 stars Quite Extraordinary — a Pioneering Book — Builds on Others But Original and Compelling It Its Own Right, April 27, 2014 I took an interest in books on trauma and dealing with refugees a month or so ago, and this is one of the books that I included …
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RIP: Michael Ruppert, A Warrior for the Truth Mike Ruppert, a former LA police officer, was best known for his book, Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, which is about 9-11, peak oil and related issues. When one reads up on his life, what …
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Star-Spangled Baggage By Ann Jones, TomDispatch This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. Read Tom Engelhardt’s introduction here. After an argument about a leave denied, Specialist Ivan Lopez pulled out a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and began a shooting spree at Fort Hood, America’s biggest stateside base, that left three soldiers dead and 16 wounded. …
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U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists? In fact, since 9/11 extremists affiliated with a variety of far-right wing ideologies, including white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and anti-government militants, have killed more people in the United States than have extremists motivated by al Qaeda’s ideology. According to a count by the New America Foundation, right …
Jeremy Rifkin 3.0 out of 5 stars Never Mind the Total Cost Terminal Society, April 13, 2014 Books like this would make me crazy if I took them seriously. This is a fad book for shallow minds that have no clue about holistic analytics, true cost economics, or anything remotely resembling the humanities (which is …
*A Stockholm Syndrome of the Soul: Proto-Intelligence for the Evolution of Collective Thought* *Preface* “[Nothing] is [certain]. There is so much mystery involving consciousness…these are just ideas to play around with and to entertain rather than [some] new form of certitude.” – Jeremy Narby, Anthropologist and Author of The Cosmic Serpent This book is not …
America – a failed state? By Johan Galtung Transnational.org, 3 April 2014 Depends, of course, on the criteria. A state has an inside towards its citizens, and an outside toward the state system. Depends on domestic and foreign policy, in other words. That means it can fail in two ways, by not catering to its …
