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Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal
New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. By Max Blumenthal Source: The Grayzone The UK Foreign and Commonwealth … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, hacktivism, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Alexei Navalny, Andy Pryce, Atlantic Council, BBC, BBC Media Action, BELARUS, Bellingcat, Belsat, Britain, British Foreign Office, CDMD, Color Revolution, Conflict, Counter Disinformation & Media Development, CSSF, Eliot Higgins, empire, geopolitics, Gordon Macmillan, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Mediazona, Meduza, NATO, Navalny, Omidyar, propaganda, Reuters, Russia, Stability & Security Fund, Thomson Reuters Foundation, uk, UK FCO, USAID, Vladimir Putin
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Comparative Political Leadership: Gandhi vs. Contemporary Leaders
By Robert J. Burrowes On 2 October 2019, it will be the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas K. Gandhi in Gujarat, India. I would like to reflect on the visionary leadership that Gandhi offered the world, briefly comparing … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Economics, education, Environment, History, Inequality, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Ahimsa, Conflict, culture, Economics, Education, environment, Inequality, Leadership, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, politics, psychology, Satyagraha, Socialization, society, Sociology, spirituality, Violence
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Learning from Gandhi
By Robert J. Burrowes Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869: 150 years ago this year. There will be many tributes to Gandhi published in 2019 so I would like to add one of my own. This reflects … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war
Tagged activism, Conflict, culture, Exploitation, Mohandas Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psychology, Satyagraha, Socialization, society, Sociology, Structural Violence, Violence, war
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Human Beings are Destroying Life on Earth but Deluding Ourselves that We are Not
By Robert J. Burrowes It is easy to identify the ongoing and endless violence being inflicted on life on Earth. This ranges from the vast multiplicity of assaults inflicted on our children and the biosphere to the endless wars and … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, war
Tagged Behavior, Conflict, Conformity, culture, Dysfunction, Earth, Ecology, Education, environment, Individual, obedience, Philosophy, psychology, Self, Socialization, society, Sociology, Violence
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The War to End War 100 Years On: An Evaluation and Reorientation of our Resistance to War
By Robert J. Burrowes British author and social commentator H.G. Wells may have coined the expression that originally popularized World War I as The War that Will End War, as his book, based on articles written during that vast … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Armistice Day, capitalism, Conflict, culture, Economics, Extinction, H.G. Wells, Non-Violence, Philosophy, psychology, PTSD, society, Sociology, The War that Will End War, US Military, Violence, war, War Resistance, World War I
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Conflict Theory and Biosphere Annihilation
By Robert J. Burrowes In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out that existing conflict theory pays little attention to the extinction-causing conflict being ongoingly generated by human over-consumption in the finite planetary biosphere (and, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Inequality, Militarization, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Billionaires, Biosphere, capitalism, civilization, Climate Change, Conflict, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporations, Economics, elites, environment, Extinction, Governments, greed, materialism, Military, over-consumption, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology
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