Richard Falk: Nonviolent Geopolitics – Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security

Nonviolent Geopolitics: Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security* In this short essay, my attempt will be to articulate a conception of a world order premised on nonviolent geopolitics, as well as to consider some obstacles to its realization. By focusing on the interplay of “law” and “geopolitics” the intention is to consider the role played …

Chuck Spinney: Toxic Alliance – Neo-Cons and “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) War-mongers

This email continues the theme I introduced with How Obama’s Rhetoric Reinforces America’s Grand Strategic Pathway to Catastrophe. Attached beneath my introduction is an brilliant essay, The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, written by Robert Parry of Consortium News.  Parry describes how propaganda produced by this domestic alliance of convenience among a non-representative minority of unelected influence peddlers …

Worth a Look: Wings for Peace – First Book on Air Power in UN Operations

Wings for Peace Ships in July 2014 Edited by A. Walter Dorn, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada Series : Military Strategy and Operational Art Air power for warfighting is a story that’s been told many times. Air power for peacekeeping and UN enforcement is a story that desperately needs to be told. For the …

Chuck Spinney: Todd Pierce on Cheneyism — Are We the New Nazis?

Todd Pierce has produced a tour de force that is crucially important to your appreciation of the increasing possibility of Cold War II. Related subjects not discussed include (1) the role of domestic politics in shaping the systematic expansion of NATO in violation of our promises to Gorbachev as a quid pro quo for ending …

2014 Robert Steele: Beyond the Open Source Agency – School of Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance, World Brain Institute, PhD in Comprehensive Architecture

DOC (11 Pages): FIVE-R-Brief-School-World-Brain-OSE-2.3R LEVEL ONE BRIEFING I have three ideas that can rapidly enhance your: • Rank among all universities • Research power among faculty • Relevance as evaluated by alumni, students, and prospects • Revenue in terms of endowments, grants, contracts, and fees • Real Estate value.

Mini-Me: Don’t Reform the CIA. Abolish It

Don’t Reform the CIA. Abolish It. by Jacob G. Hornberger March 12, 2014 Anyone who reads the works of the late Chalmers Johnson will have an excellent understanding of the role that the U.S. national-security state, especially the vast military empire and military-industrial complex, plays in America’s foreign-policy woes. I particularly recommend his four books: …