Tag: Iran

When Will The Bloodletting End…?

Post author By RWR Host
Post date April 21, 2024

Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one-third to one-half of the total going to military contractors. [Source: Brown University, Costs of War project]

While America is otherwise indisposed, pathological opportunists in positions of power make decisions harmful to us all.

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Cato Institute Immigration Data

Post author By RWR Host
Post date January 13, 2020

Don’t let the boring title fool ya! This data screams as loudly as any town crier ever could… So I ask; what ‘story’ do you see emerging from this data…? A sortable, searchable data table from Alex Nowrasteh’s January 26, 2017 Cato ‘immigration ban’ blog post.(Greatest threats in red, ban countries in gray, totals bold […]

Tags Afghanistan, Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute, Egypt, immigration, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Political Islam, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, UAE - United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Musings

What’s In A Word…

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 9, 2019

So… this just happened… [I loathe that mindless expression, so the irony applies with force.] Somewhere in the process of working on other things, while mulling over the definitions of certain things – article, episode, incident, for instance – suddenly something dropped into the (mental) slot… and it finally occurred to me what Patrick Clawson […]

Tags Carroll Quigley, Edward Mandell House, FDR - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, foreign policy, Gulf of Tonkin Episode, Iran, James Perloff, John Adams, Lusitania Episode, Patrick Clawson, Pearl Harbor Episode, Peter Dale Scott, Power Elite, Strategy of Tension, USS Maine Episode, William Blum, WWI, WWII

In the Wild

Hidden In Plain Sight

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 5, 2019

Following are a few of the ‘high points’ from our conversation… and maybe an extra nugget or two, but who’s counting… Herd Think Propaganda (1928) by Edward Bernays The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism […]

Tags 5G, 9-11, A. Stafford Beer, Abraham Lincoln, AI - Artificial Intelligence, Belt and Road Initiative, Bill Gates, Cambridge Analytica, Chamath Palihapitiya, Cheq, China, CVE - countering violent extremism, D-Wave, Deep fakes, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, dopamine feedback loop, Edward Bernays, Elon Musk, Facebook, fake news, FCC - Federal Communications Commission, FDR - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, foreign policy, Fort Sumter, Geordie Rose, George Wilder, Glenn Beck, Google, Gulf of Tonkin Episode, Guy Tytunovic, H. P. Lovecraft, Hao Li, Herd think, Iran, Israel, Jeff Brown, Kindred AI, Lebanon, Libya, Lusitania Episode, Lyndon Johnson, mass psychology, Michal Kosinski, Millennials, Mohammed bin Salman, Nafees Hamid, NEOM, New Silk Road, Patrick Clawson, Paul Wolfowitz, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor Episode, propaganda, quantum computing, RMS Lusitania, Sam Harris, Saudi Arabia, Sean Parker, Selfish Ledger, Simon Sinek, smart city, social engineering, social media, Somalia, Spain, Spanish–American War, Sudan, sustainable development, Syria, Tom Wheeler, USC - University of Southern California, USIP - United States Institute of Peace, USS Maine, USS Maine Episode, violent extremism, Wesley Clark, Woodrow Wilson, WWI, WWII