David Swanson: Kellogg-Briand Pact – Peace Pact of Paris — Bans War, USA is Still a Party to This Treaty

A Built-In Cure for War Erin Niemela’s recent proposal that we amend the Constitution to ban war is provocative and persuasive.  Count me in.  But I have a related idea that I think should be tried first. While banning war is just what the world ordered, it has about it something of the whole Bush-Cheney …

SchwartzReport: Corporate Cabal Taking Over World Food and Water Supplies — Until the Riots — Will Vigilantes Begin Hunting Down and Killing Monsanto Executives?

I have decided to focus today’s SR on GMOs and the transgenic sector because it represents such a clear example of the geopolitical shift we are living through: the Ascendence of the Non-geographical corporate states. NGCSs are not just corporations, in a business sense, that we mean when we say, corporatocracy. These transnational entities are …

Search: phd topics on the role of intelligence in peace support operation + Peacekeeping RECAP

Had to Stop.  WordPress Cannot Handle So Many Links, and Entire Phi Beta Iota Site is About Peace and Prosperity Through Intelligence with Integrity.  Links Below Line Estimated 25% of Relevant Links Across all 12,000+ Posts. Excellent search and badly needed PhD thesis that could “write the book” on the role of intelligence in support …

Counter-Intelligence: Free New Film Online by Scott Noble; Links & Summary for Earlier Film The Power Principle (Also Free Online)

Of his films as a whole, John Stauber, the founder of the Center for Media and Democracy, stated: “Metanoia is brilliantly pioneering the new film-making — incisive analysis, compelling sound and footage, fearless and independent reporting, and the aggregation of the best information out there into powerful, educational and free online feature films – all …

Ralph Peters: The Birth of Modern War – How the 1860’s Changed War, and the World

First published by Armchair General.  Full text online for ease of automated translation. In document form (15 pages):  2013-05-09 Ralph Peters Birth of Modern Warfare THE BIRTH OF MODERN WAR How the 1860s Changed the Fields of Battle Forever By Ralph Peters      The ten-year span that began with the American Civil War in 1861 …

Chuck Spinney & Philip Giraldi: The Poisonous (Treasonous?) Influence of the Neo-Cons…Why Isn’t the FBI Going After Them?

While there is little that is new in the attached article by Philip Giraldi; it is nevertheless very important and well worth reading.  Giraldi has produced an excellent summary of the truly poisonous influences on US foreign and defense policies, a group more accurately described by the collective modifier neo-conmen. He describes how the influence of this movement’s …