Robert Parry, founder and editor of ConsortiumNews.com, discusses the other factors besides the "surge" that led to decreased violence in post-2007 Iraq, why it's still important to fight the conventional surge narrative that elevated Gen. Petraeus's career and influenced strategy in Afghanistan and how the rigid neoconservative ideology of Bush administration policymakers significantly delayed a truce with the Sunni Awakening groups.
Robert Parry is an investigative journalist who won the George Polk Award in 1984 for reporting on the Iran-Contra affair and uncovering Oliver North's involvement in it. He is the founder and editor of ConsortiumNews.com and author of Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.
Robert A. Pape, coauthor of Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It, discusses the evidence that (still) shows suicide attacks are much more closely related to foreign military occupations than religious extremism, why U.S. efforts to date have been more effective at provoking terrorism than preventing it, the inverse correlation between troop levels and suicide attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan and how Pape's thesis is finally catching on in media and government circles.
Robert A. Pape is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs. His publications include Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Random House 2005); Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Cornell 1996), "Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work," International Security (1997), "The Determinants of International Moral Action," International Organization (1999); "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," American Political Science Review (2003); and "Soft Balancing against the United States," International Security (2005).
His commentary on international security policy has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, as well as on Nightline, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and National Public Radio. Before coming to Chicago in 1999, he taught international relations at Dartmouth College for five years and air power strategy for the USAF's School of Advanced Airpower Studies for three years. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in 1988 and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. His current work focuses on the causes of suicide terrorism and the politics of unipolarity.
Carl Johan Calleman, author of "Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our time : The Mayan Calendar", "The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness" and "The Purposeful Universe: How Quantum Theory and Mayan Cosmology Explain the Origin and Evolution of Life". We discuss Carl's work on the end of the Mayan Calendar and his views on the "Last Day" of the Creation Cycle of the Mayan Calendar, a period between November 3rd 2010 and October 28th 2011. Topics Discussed: the calendar coming to an end, the galactic underworld, celebrating a new balance, rationality, masculinity, domination, western & eastern forces, the feminine, council of elders, the 2012 movie, cosmic plan, cosmic energy shift, balancing, nine foundations of the pyramid, March 9th 2011, into the space of God, chaos, compression of time, predictions based on the Mayan Calendar, rise of China, economic crash, the cosmic schedule, polarity shift in consciousness, the cosmic tree of life, Gliese 581g, meeting our galactic neighbors, biological evolution, unity consciousness, the movie Avatar, galactic center, conscious co-creation, The Secret, and how to serve the cosmic plan.
Carl Johan Calleman, author of "Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our time : The Mayan Calendar", "The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness" and "The Purposeful Universe: How Quantum Theory and Mayan Cosmology Explain the Origin and Evolution of Life". We discuss Carl's work on the end of the Mayan Calendar and his views on the "Last Day" of the Creation Cycle of the Mayan Calendar, a period between November 3rd 2010 and October 28th 2011. Topics Discussed: the calendar coming to an end, the galactic underworld, celebrating a new balance, rationality, masculinity, domination, western & eastern forces, the feminine, council of elders, the 2012 movie, cosmic plan, cosmic energy shift, balancing, nine foundations of the pyramid, March 9th 2011, into the space of God, chaos, compression of time, predictions based on the Mayan Calendar, rise of China, economic crash, the cosmic schedule, polarity shift in consciousness, the cosmic tree of life, Gliese 581g, meeting our galactic neighbors, biological evolution, unity consciousness, the movie Avatar, galactic center, conscious co-creation, The Secret, and how to serve the cosmic plan.
Mysterious Lights Over East El Paso
By Ben Swann – Main Anchor
Friday, October 15, 2010 – 10:26pm
Above the skies of Northeast and East El Paso, Friday night a sight that was a little more than stunning.
Video, captured by one of our photographers shows one solitary light that appears to be falling in the sky. That light suddenly breaks apart and into three separate lights.
Those lights then seem to freeze in the air and just hover.
Eventually a fourth light can be seen and the lights appear to be hovering around each other. Then they all disappear.
We are told that Airsho pilots were performing manuevers Friday night and the lights were likely part of that.
Jeremy Narby, anthropologist and author of "The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge" and "Intelligence in Nature," joins us from Switzerland. He talks about his research and anthropological work in the Peruvian Amazon, living next to the Quirishari and studying the source of their knowledge about plants. We also discuss DNA, the roots of knowledge, intelligence in nature, communication with the entities beyond this world from deep within, experiences on Ayahuascha, difference in cultures and more. Other topics discussed: Ayaschanica People, Ayahuasca, Quirishari, Carlos Perez Shuman, Visionary Journeys, Anthopology, Visions, Art of Scientific Investigation, Computer, Origins of Knowledge, Francis Crick, LSD, Double Helix Structure, The Realm of Visions, Molecular intelligence, Serpent Symbolism, Coding System of Genes, Biospheric DNA Television, Ayahuasca DMT, di methyl-tryptamine, Datura, Dreamworld, Modification of Consciousness, Studying the Cosmos, Avatar, Shamanism.
Jeremy Narby, anthropologist and author of "The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge" and "Intelligence in Nature," joins us from Switzerland. He talks about his research and anthropological work in the Peruvian Amazon, living next to the Quirishari and studying the source of their knowledge about plants. We also discuss DNA, the roots of knowledge, intelligence in nature, communication with the entities beyond this world from deep within, experiences on Ayahuascha, difference in cultures and more. Other topics discussed: Ayaschanica People, Ayahuasca, Quirishari, Carlos Perez Shuman, Visionary Journeys, Anthopology, Visions, Art of Scientific Investigation, Computer, Origins of Knowledge, Francis Crick, LSD, Double Helix Structure, The Realm of Visions, Molecular intelligence, Serpent Symbolism, Coding System of Genes, Biospheric DNA Television, Ayahuasca DMT, di methyl-tryptamine, Datura, Dreamworld, Modification of Consciousness, Studying the Cosmos, Avatar, Shamanism.
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