Memo to James Clapper: Are Americans Genetically Prone to Regression?

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From Russia with no love? A double-broadside attack against James Clapper's genetic explanation behind Russia's alleged motives to interfere in US elections.

James Clapper, former director of US National Intelligence, recently claimed that Russians were “genetically driven” to manipulate and interfere in the affairs of other nations, echoing the Weltanschauung of a bygone dictator who harboured similar views on those “inferior Asiatic” genes. One would be forgiven for momentarily assuming that Clapper was referring to his own nation. The United States has been warring for 93% of its miserable existence, entailing 222 out of 239 years of bloodshed between its founding in 1776 and 2015. No US president has ever led a continuous peacetime administration.

I see that temperatures are rising in Washington, Moscow, and all over EU capitals. Interesting times ahead. The rest of the article can be read here:

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201705311054162561-memo-to-james-clapper/

 

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I have met the author. Quite a colourful character.

 

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In any case, as if to buttress Sputnik's loaded Opinion piece, Newsweek does it’s own brand of introspection:


U.S. TAKES DRAMATIC HIT IN GLOBAL PEACE RANKINGS AS RACISM, CRIME AND INCOME INEQUALITY SOAR

http://www.newsweek.com/us-more-dan...es-dramatic-hit-international-rankings-618813

The United States has plummeted on a global ranking of countries based on levels of corruption, violent crime, racism and respect for human rights. The Global Peace Index 2017, issued annually by the Institute of Economics and Peace(IEP), shows the U.S declining 11 places in the global rankings to 114th out of 163 surveyed nations.

America is safer than war zones such as Syria —which came in last place—Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, which are classified ‘very low’. But the U.S. is only ranked ‘medium’ and appears below Haiti, which has struggled with poverty and violent crime since Hurricane Matthew in 2010, and Liberia, which is dealing with the legacy of its brutal civil war.

Yet, the US is trying to "bring peace" elsewhere, day after day...