Chuck Spinney: From Palestine to Syria to Jordan — The True Cost of Western Ignorance & Arrogance

Below is a two-part series of reports by Nicolas Pelham on the increasingly precarious situation in Jordan. The proximate causes of Jordan’s growing potential for instability and revolution derive from the spillover effects of the Syrian Civil War.  But these effects are amplifying deeper demographic tensions that were already causing serious problems.  As Pelham show, …

Chuck Spinney – Cogent Analysis pf Arab Spring Seven Key Challenges Not Available from CIA or Department of State – Plus Personal Appeal for Contributions to Keep CounterPunch Going

Jeffrey St Claire, the editor at Counterpunch has given me permission to distribute the attached essay, “The Arab Spring at the Crossroads,” by  Esam Al-Amin.  It was published in the subscription edition of Counterpunch and is not available at the CP website.  Al-Amin, who I do not know, has written a very informative summary of …

Tom Atlee: Entering Interdependence on Independence Day

Entering Interdependence on Independence Day Dear friends, So many thoughts on US Independence Day…. 1.  For years there have been Declarations of INTERdependence and suggestions and organizing for INTERdependence day.  I first learned about this 8 years ago and wrote it up at http://www.co-intelligence.org/interdependenceday.html  Googling it today I see the movement has flourished – and …

Chuck Spinney: US Continues to be Clueless on AF Cultural – Tribal Intelligence – Karzai Brothers a Replay of Ngo Dinh Diem & Madame Nhu

In my last Blaster, I discussed the deficiencies of the Washington Post puff piece on the Obama/Allen triage strategy for exiting Afghanistan. One of the points mentioned was that the NATO/US commander, Marine general John Allen is a student of military history and that he was working to avoid the mistakes the Soviet Union made …

Howard Rheingold: Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (3) – Visioning Emergent Leadership

Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (3): Visioning Emergent Leadership Michel Bauwens 16th November 2011 Excerpted from Sharif Abdullah: “One of the constant mantras of the “Occupy Together” (OT) phenomenon is its “leaderless” nature. I support and applaud this… to a point. Anyone who has come to my workshops over the past ten years …

Tom Atlee: Three New Potent Occupy Together Resources

Three new potent Occupy Together resources Three new exciting resources have just showed up. 1. OccupyCafe.org – a linked phone and online forum space for conversations among everyone “who cares about what is happening on Wall Street and around the world.” Its phone mode uses the advanced MaestroConferencing system that enables activities like breakout groups …