Berto Jongman: Chinese View on US Sponsoring Terrorism Across Middle East

Spotlight: U.S. flawed policies fuel terrorism, leave lasting wounds in Middle East CAIRO, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) — The United States’ flawed policies, including its double standards in counter-terrorism in Mideast, have left deep scars and negative repercussions on the region, and led to the expansion of terrorism, experts here said.  Read full article.  

Chuck Spinney: Cartographic Games Divorced from Reality – Daniel Neep on The Middle Eastern Example

Below is a brilliant essay that shows how cartographic hallucinogenics can capture one’s Orientation and create an incestuously amplifying* decision cycle that disconnects a “policy” maker from real world. * Note to new readers: For an explanation of how “incestuous amplification” operates to disconnect a decision maker from the exigencies of the real world read my essay, Incestuous …

CounterPunch: Rise of “Islam as a Solution” Fundamentalism and Failure of the Left in the Middle East

The Rise of Religious Powers and the Failure of the Left in The Middle-East: An Interview with Ramzy Baroud EXTRACT The general idea was: both US-western and Soviet models have failed or are failing, and there is an urgent need for alternative. Don’t forget these societies fought and are fighting against extremely corrupt, brutal, calculating …

Mongoose: US Declassifies 1987 Overview of Israel’s Nuclear Program — Israel, Not Iran, Is the Nuclear Threat in the Middle East

Finally, the real truth with regard to Nuclear weapons and the Middle East.  Take note of the date of the report 1987.  It is now 28 years later without absolutely NO constraints having been in place on Nuclear Weapons development throughout that whole time.  What does that tell you about Bibi’s concern for a nuclear …

Review: EMERGE! The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East

Elza S. Maalouf, Foreword by Don Beck 5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary — Empowering, World-Changing, Rich in Substance, December 6, 2014 This book was recommended to me by Michael Ostrolenk, whom I consider one of the most inspiring transpartisan figures in America today, and endorsed by Elisabet Sahtouris, evolution biologist and “Yoda” to many …

Event: 29 OCT 14 DC Emerge!: The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East

Join Elza S. Maalouf for a discussion on her new book, Emerge!: The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East.  [To be released 21 October 2014, available for pre-order now at Amazon.] ELZA S. MAALOUF is a Lebanese-American futurist, theorist, author and public speaker. She is one of the foremost experts …