Reuters — Syrian 'White Helmets' flee to Jordan with Israeli, Western help: officials

This has been reported widely on the net. Now Reuters has picked it up.

The evacuees will be kept in a “closed” location in Jordan and resettled in Britain, Germany and Canada within three months, the source added.…

Draw your own conclusions.

Reuters
Syrian 'White Helmets' flee to Jordan with Israeli, Western help: officials

See also

Southfront
Four Free Syrian Army Commanders Run Away To Israel

Also of interest at Southfront

US To Create Several New US military Bases In Argentina

See also

Sputnik International
US 'Unlikely' to Accept White Helmets, Who They Know to Be 'Terrorists'- Journo

Also at Sputnik
Top 5 Facts to Know About the White Helmets Amid Controversial Syrian Evacuation

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Because the Israeli leadership is so humanitarian.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Israel's spearheading the move at the request of the United States and European governments. The dead of night operation comes a week after reports first surfaced that serious discussions were held on the matter during the July 11-12 NATO summit in Brussels.

The IDF official twitter account posted the following statement: "Following an Israeli Government directive and at the request of the United States and additional European countries, the IDF recently completed a humanitarian effort to rescue members of a Syrian civil organization and their families."

The IDF further called the effort "an exceptional humanitarian gesture" and additionally confirmed that the White Helmets were transferred "through Israel".…

Meanwhile a number of journalists and analysts asked the obvious million dollar question: "Why evacuation specifically for just this group and its families?" Why not other civilians?"...

With today's Israeli rescue operation giving greater clarity to the nature of the group fundamentally being a foreign-created and foreign sponsored entity, a number of mainstream media outlets are now for the first time casually and belatedly referencing this fact....

Zero Hedge
White Helmets "Rescued" By Israel Via Golan Heights In Overnight Operation

Tyler Durden

Pavel Nastin — Jihadism Spreads like Wildfire Across Africa

Don't forget Africa. The most populous cities in the world are projected to be in Africa by the end of the century.

NEO
Jihadism Spreads like Wildfire Across Africa

Pavel Nastin

Pepe Escobar — Here’s the real reason the US must talk to Russia

Pepe Escobar draws out the implications of Andrei Martyanov's Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning.

What Martyanov describes as “the deadly combination of contemporary American elites’ ignorance, hubris and desperation,” though, cannot be underestimated.

Already during his election campaign, Trump announced multiple times that he would contest the post-Cold War international (dis)order. Helsinki was a graphic demonstration that now Trump’s “drain the swamp” faces a massive immovable object, as the swamp will take no prisoners to preserve its trillion-dollar power.

In contrast, Russian diplomacy, as explicitly reaffirmed once again this week by Putin himself, is adamant that anything is permitted when it comes to avoiding Cold War 2.0....

The fundamental issue is a switch from foreign policy idealism (Wilsonian foreign policy characterized by liberal internationalism under US leadership) to foreign policy realism (Jacksonian foreign policy, focus on US national interests). The Foreign policy idealism was furthered by Zbigniew Brzezinski, and foreign policy realism by Henry Kissinger.

It’s crystal clear that President Trump is applying Kissingerian divide-and-rule tactics, trying to reduce Russian political/economic connectivity with the two other Eurasian integration poles, China and Iran....

Here’s the real reason the US must talk to Russia
Pepe Escobar

Joaquin Flores — Explaining Trump to ‘Socialist’ Liberals

This is an interesting read as the statement of a millennial on the current situation via a letter to his boomer father.

 He has clearly thought this through carefully. However, some of his assumptions, e.g., about monetary economics, central banking, etc., are mistaken, but this is a common issue since almost no one has a correct grasp of them.

Flores argues to his labor-union leftist father how alt-right has become the new left and explains why. Of further interest, the family is Mexican-American, so the immigration issue also enters the argument.

FRN’s Joaquin Flores writes a letter to his 69 year-old dad, also a former labor union organizer like himself, to explain the situation in the US today. The paradigm has shifted, and those wedded to the old ways are very much confused and quite lost at sea. The left and right concepts are melting away, and glacial rivers are violently casting the uninitiated aside.

Fort Russ
Explaining Trump to ‘Socialist’ Liberals – FLORES

Joaquin Flores

See also

Moon of Alabama
'Progressives Are Putin Stooges' - How Centrists Will Help To Reelect Trump

Publius Tacitus — America On It's Way to Being Stalin's Soviet Union

Nothing more sickening and offensive than the hypocrisy of a nation claiming to be the pinnacle of democracy and freedom while moving inexorably towards a state that embraces authoritarianism. And no, I do not mean that Donald Trump is the culprit. He is not. He is a weak man masquerading as a strong man while the BORG aka the Deep State pushes onward with its agenda to quash the spirit of liberty that once infused this great country. He is more a victim than an instigator....

Sic Semper Tyrannis
America On It's Way to Being Stalin's Soviet Union

Publius Tacitus

Tom Luongo — In U.S., Sometimes CIA Eat You

The First U.S. Civil War is here. The real Civil War.

The one between We the People and the Government itself....

There's divisive and then there is divisive.

Tom Luongo
In U.S., Sometimes CIA Eat You

RT — China must speed up development of nukes to deter US aggression – state media

The arms race heats up as Cold War 2.0 spreads to Asia.

RT
China must speed up development of nukes to deter US aggression – state media

Reuters — U.S. launches campaign to erode support for Iran's leaders

More brilliant thinking from the folks in DC and Langley.

Reuters
U.S. launches campaign to erode support for Iran's leaders
Jonathan Landay, Arshad Mohammed, Warren Strobel, John Walcott

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Popular Resistance
Violent Coup Fails in Nicaragua, Us Continues Regime Change Efforts

Kevin Zeese

Marisa Fernandez — JD.com is leapfrogging rural China into online shopping

JD.com, the third-largest tech company in the world behind Amazon and Google's parent company Alphabet, is focusing on hundreds of isolated villages in rural China as it has hired 85,000 delivery personnel, and focusing on locals to do its bidding in ramping up online shopping, a relatively new concept for the region, according to The New Yorker's Jiayang Fan.

Bold.

Axios
What we're reading: JD.com is leapfrogging rural China into online shopping

Marisa Fernandez

Jake Johnson — Bernie Sanders: Trump 'Really Sold the American People Out' in Helsinki Summit

Bernie flames out. He is either brainless, or an agent of the US deep state. Likely, brainless, which became clear when he did not listen to Stephanie Kelton after appoint her economic adviser.

Is there anyone else on the US left (global center right) with promise, that is, groks both domestic and foreign issues? Most of them are clueless about economics and members of the war party. Sad.

Common Dreams
Bernie Sanders: Trump 'Really Sold the American People Out' in Helsinki Summit

Jake Johnson

Zero Hedge — "Truth Was Irrelevant" WSJ Asks: Was Brennan's Action The Real "Treason"?

Brennan in the crosshairs?

I don't link to the WSJ since it is behind a paywall. ZH recounts the latest there.

Zero Hedge
"Truth Was Irrelevant" WSJ Asks: Was Brennan's Action The Real "Treason"?

Tyler Durden

Steven Bannon is back — in Europe

Sputnik International
'Soros Brilliant, But Evil': Bannon to Rival Open Society Foundations in Europe

Deutsche Welle
US-Rechtspopulist Steve Bannon plant rechte Bewegung in Europa

[US right-wing populist Steve Bannon plans a right-wing movement in Europe]

(I didn't find an English there on their English site. It did not turn up in a web search either.)

Tucker Carlson - Professor Cohen on Why Trump Was Attacked Over Russia

Tucker Calson and Stephen Cohen expose the Russiagate myth. Cohen says the liberals are risking WW3.

The Julian Assange Affair

The Intercept
Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK. What Comes Next?

Glenn Greenwald

Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
Be Prepared To Shake The Earth If Julian Assange Is Arrested
Caitlin Johnstone

Frank Li — Adam Smith vs. Karl Marx

Frank Li is a Chinese ex-pat that settled in America after receiving a PhD in the US. He is an electrical engineer and entrepreneur.

His take is informed from both the Chinese and American (Western) points of view and he offers a reasonably objective analysis in comparison to the largely one-sided and ill-informed one that one generally encounters in the West. His work covers the social, political and economic spectrum but this one focuses on economics.

The dramatic rise of China over the past four decades not only has rocketed China's economy to the top of the world (in terms of PPP - purchasing power parity), with no end in sight, but also is ending western dominance over the past 200 years, at least.

What does that mean to the world? Everything, from politics (End of Democracy?) to economics!

This post is about economics. It highlights two giant economists: Adam Smith behind the West’s economy and Karl Marx behind Chinese economy....

econintersect
Adam Smith vs. Karl Marx

Frank Li | Chinese ex-pat living in the US

See also

Enter the dragon.

Sputnik International
China Wages Cold War Seeking to Replace US as Main Power - CIA Official

Thomas Frank - "Trump won because Clinton and the Democrats dismissed the concerns of working people"

This is good, Thomas Frank describes everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party and where it went wrong. It took the working class vote for granted and decided to represent instead the upward mobile class  of professionals who are very liberal on social values, but very right wing on economic issues. These people have top degrees and believe in the meritocracy and so have no sympathy for those poorer than themselves believing it's their own fault they got left behind.

These aspiring top earners also believe the bankers did not mean to cause the economic crisis in 2008, and only cheated a little, but they say nothing about working class people who lied to to get a mortgage and so were then sent to prison.

In his latest book, "Listen, Liberal : Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People ?", just released in France '"Pourquoi les riches votent à gauche" (éd. Agone), Thomas Frank explains how Hillary Clinton and the Democrats lost the 2016 presidential election. "Decades ago, the Democratic Party decided that thy did not want to be the party of the working class any longer. Thomas Frank call them the "professionals", they are white, rich, they have all studied in the best universities. They are very liberal on social issues, but very conservative and not as ease with the issues of inequality, incomes, etc.

"The Democrats, in the course of my lifetime, have become a party that is uncomfortable with discontent, with class-based anger. They don't like to talk about it. It makes them uncomfortable. Whenever they hear it, they try to get around it, they try to throw roadblocks in front, cognitive roadblocks, they don't want to think about it", acccording to Thomas Frank in this interview for the French newsmagazine "L'Obs". These Democrats want to be the party of a different class : the "creative" or "the winners". The democratic party and Clinton thought that the working class had "nowhere else to go", according to Frank. But they actually did vote for Trump....

Jimmy Dore - FBI Never Inspected DNC Server - Seriously!

Sam Seder says that Jimmy Dore does not get his facts right and is spreading fake news, and he also criticises Glenn Greenweld for trying to expose the Russiagate nonsense. I'm disappointing with Sam Seder who seems to support the  mainstream Democrats while is spreading Russiagate lies.

I can't see anything wrong in the Jimmy Dore video - all truth. Why wasn't Hilary's server allowed to be inspected by the FBI? How can Sam Seder not find this suspicious?

Despite recent claims by the media, and despite the fact Trump is parroting the same claims, the DNC servers were never inspected by the FBI and Crowdstrike’s involvement is still suspect.

Paul Craig Roberts - The Arrest of Maria Butina Is Another Hoax

What's wrong with the Guardian, the West has become an Orwellian nightmare? It once had an independent panel who overlooked it, but now it manned with bankers and Neocons. KV - Kevin.

The Guardian Neswspaper, which once was an honest newspaper that spoke for the British working class has now been suborned, in my opinion, by the CIA and British Intelligence (sic).

Perhaps you remember a few years ago that The Guardian complied with illegal orders from the corrupt UK government to destroy the Wikileak files that revealed US felonies and deceptions of so-called “allies,” who are nothing but Washington’s vassals.

What disturbs me about The Guardian is that it no longer guards truth and the working class. Instead The Guardian guards the extraordinary lies that serve the agenda of the US hegemonic state.

I cannot understand why any of The Guardian’s original subscribers read apologies for Washington’s crimes and misdeeds or why The Guardian prefers conflict instead of peace with Russia. Why does The Guardian work to increase hostility between nuclear powers that can easily result in the termination of life on earth? Are The Guardian’s editors paid by the CIA and UK “intelligence,” as the German newspaper editor Udo Ulfkotte said in his book, Bought Journalism, or are The Guardian’s editiors threatened with arrest and prison unless they serve the interests of the UK’s overlord in Washington?

Whatever The Guardian is, just like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and the rest of the Western presstitutes, journalism is not present on its pages. What the West has is a Ministry of Propaganda. The public is lied to and brainwashed, not informed.

We can see the total failure of The Guardian, and all the rest as well, in the reporting on the arrest of the alleged Russian spy, Maria Butina by the utterly corrupt US Department of Justice (sic). The principal evidence against Maria is that she met with a former Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. According to the utterly corrput US Department of Justice (sic), an assistant US attorney, Erik Kenerson, “cited Butina’s encounter with Kislyak as proof that she was in touch with diplomatic or consular officials and must be detained while awaiting trial.”

So, in America if you get your photo taken with a former Russian ambassador to the US it is evidence that you are a spy.

I have read the indictment of Maria Butina. She is not accused of any crime recognizable by Anglo-American law. She is indicted under Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century totalitarian argument that she is guilty of the “crime” of possibly intending to commit one in the future. (See The Tyranny of Good intentions by PCR and Lawrence Stratton.)

Paul Craig Roberts - The Arrest of Maria Butina Is Another Hoax

The Real News - Israel Is Arming Ukraine's Blatantly Neo-Nazi Militia the Azov Battalion

While in the UK, at the moment, those that criticise Israel's policies towards the Palestinians and believe Israel is a rogue st\state are getting called racists and antisemitic, Israel is arming the racist, white supremacist Neo- Nazis thugs in the Ukraine on behalf of the US, which due to current legislation has been banned from doing so itself. If I call this out, would I get called antisemitic and a racist?

  
A shocking new report in the Electronic Intifada reveals that Ukrainian neo-Nazis are using Israeli weapons to fight Russia. Journalist Max Blumenthal discusses the SS-wearing Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia that uses Hitlerian symbols and is embedded in the National Guard of Ukraine, which also receives support from the US and Canada.

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Ukrainian Fascist Leader Speaks in US Congress, While Nazis Launch Racist Attacks

Journalist Max Blumenthal asked why a fascist leader was welcomed in the US Senate building. He discusses Andriy Parubiy, the founder of two neo-Nazi organizations and the chair of Ukraine's parliament, and the violent white supremacist movement against Russia.

Jimmy Dore - FBI Chief: CHINA Our Biggest Threat

Just when you thought it was safe - as Trump makes peace with Russia - Lester Holt, of the FBI, says China is a serious threat to the US. The Chinese are everywhere, he says, they involved with US agriculture, high tech, academia, grain, everything, and they are in every state the FBI research has found.

Holt says China is trying to achieve economic superiority over the US. What, do you mean that if a country economic system outsmarts the US then the US will go to war with that country?  Surely if we live in free world, which the US says it defends, then countries should be able to choose any economic system that suites them  best. Oh I get it, China is not a democracy, but hey, neither is America, so who are the FBI kidding? 

Lester Holt comes across as a gangster to me, as many of the elite are, and peace with Russia threatens their military-industrial complex profits (a protection racket that these mobsters run), so China is being set up to be the new bogeyman. They didn't waste any time getting the next enemy ready for us, I suppose just in case Trump actually does pull off a working peace deal with Russia, despite the CIA and FBI attempts to undermine it. 

In a recent Lester Holt interview, the FBI reveals they’re on to their newest scapegoat, China

More reaction to the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit

Liberal commentators are highly critical of President Donald Trump for what they see as a cozy relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But in their fury they’re missing the bigger picture: Trump’s stance on Russia may augur a return to a consensus between the U.S. and Russia on how to run the world....

Fortune
Trump Didn’t Betray America. He Wants to Restore the Old U.S.-Russia Alliance

Geoffrey Roberts |  expert on Russian and Soviet foreign policy, is an Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork, expert on Russian and Soviet foreign policy, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy

ABC (Australia)
Trump's behaviour not treasonous: Professor Stephen Cohen on the Helsinki Summit

Stephen Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University, Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University

The American Conservative
Forget Trump: The Military-Industrial Complex is Still Running the Show With Russia

Bruce Fein | partner in the law firm of Fein & DelValle PLLC, formerly associate deputy attorney general and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission under President Reagan and counsel to the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran

The Duran
Assessing the Putin-Trump Helsinki summit: neither a breakthrough nor a damp squib but a possible start towards detente

Alexander Mercouris

For Russ
Popov: Putin’s Donbass Proposal Is Targeted Leak, Not Fake News

Edward Popov

HBR — Survey: 68% of CEOs Admit They Weren’t Prepared for the Job

CEOs are known for their confidence. It is, after all, one of the reasons they’ve made it to the top. And yet, that confidence sometimes flags, as we at leadership advisory firm Egon Zehnder learned from a survey of 402 CEOs from 11 countries—executives who together run companies with $2.6 trillion in sales.

Participating anonymously, CEOs told us that while they did feel ready for the strategic and business aspects of their roles, they felt much less prepared for the personal and interpersonal components of leadership, which are just as critical to success.
Here are some of the most surprising findings:

One of the issues is that there is not much CEO training prior to taking the reins.

Remarked one: “When you become the final decisionmaker, everything changes. It’s hard to train on this.”

That would apply to decision-makings in politics, too. How does one train to be president and commander-in chief of the military.

Harvard Business Review
Survey: 68% of CEOs Admit They Weren’t Prepared for the Job
Kati Najipoor-Schutte and Dick Patton

Jeff Desjardins — New York City isn't even on the list of the projected 20 most-populated cities in 2100

The biggest city projected for 2100? Lagos, Nigeria.

Pretty amazing article. Different world.

Urbanization is in full swing globally.

Unless....

Business Insider
New York City isn't even on the list of the projected 20 most-populated cities in 2100

Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist

Chris Dillow — Capitalism as a fetter

...there is, if you like, a third way between utopian communism on the one hand and technocratic tweaks on the other.

It begins from the idea that ten years of stagnant productivity might mean we are now at the phase of capitalism that Marx foresaw:

At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters.

 Stumbling and Mumbling
Capitalism as a fetterChris Dillow | Investors Chronicle

Paul Jay - Putin is Anointed King, but Big Capital has the Real Power - RAI with A. Buzgalin

Aleksandr Buzgalin, a professor of political economy at the Moscow University, says that Putin is only a figurehead and that the real power lies with the Russian oligarchs. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the oligarchs fought each other over the state industries, which was often very violent with drive-by shootings, etc, but once they had got as much as they could they wanted stability so they allowed Putin to gain power. .

Paul Jay says the problem the West has with Putin is that its oligarchs got pushed out of the power grab for the Russia's state industries and resources and not even Western finance has been able to gain a foothold.

Aleksandr Buzgalin says that Putin did take Russia very slightly to the left, but he's no friend of the working man. He says the Communist Party has a few communist slogans, but it is really a nationalist party with an admiration of Stalin.

Aleksandr Buzgalin says there is a real left movement in Russia of which he is part of. But can the good people ever overcome the oligarchs? Let's hope so. And there are good people amongst the very wealthy too, and they maybe even in the majority with the extended family. So there's hope?

It seems wherever you go the ruling elite remain in charge. Look Jeremy Corbyn? Who backs him. Paul Mason, Bill Mitchell, Momentum, and me? But the ruing class run finance, commerce, the media, the military-industrial complex, and industry, and can ensure Corbyn policies get run into the ground.

Paul Craig Roberts said that Hugo Chavez was a good guy so didn't put the elite,who tried to dispose of him in a coup, on trail for treason and then hang them. But how can good win against evil when evil will murder, bribe, kidnap, threaten your family, and be capable of any heinous, act? So evil rules the world and the general population is unaware, but the internet is slowly spreading the truth.

Maybe China is different?

On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Aleksandr Buzgalin says after the chaotic ‘90’s, the Russian oligarchs needed a stronger central state to defend their class interests, but Putin’s individual power should not be exaggerated - with host Paul Jay.

Bernie Sanders - Bernie Explains the Trump-Putin Summit

Think Bernie Sanders would have made a great president, well, Stephen Lendman was right, he is just another warmonger like all the others? I'm disappointed!

The Helsinki summit was a good day for Putin and the oligarchs in Russia. But it was a bad day for people in the United States and all over the world who believe in democracy and who are trying to understand what world our idiot president lives in.

The Real News - British Labour Party's Anti-Semitism Document: Criticizing Israel Is not Anti-Semitism

Moshé Machover discusses the advances and limitations of the Labour Party's document on anti-semitism, which represents an important step forward to diffuse an issue that has become an artificial controversy designed to undermine Jeremy Corbyn

Pro Zionist groups are conflating any criticism of Israel as antisemitism and seem to be getting away with it. Momentum supports the rights of Palestinians and so have been targeted. They get away with it because the media is not telling the public that there is a difference,

Arkady SAVITSKY - Russia: Sovereign and Well-Protected from Financial Storms

Russia has braced itself against future financial storms.

Analysts from the Bank of America (BofA) Corp. believe that the global stock market is in for a crisis that will echo the events of 1997-1998. Bloomberg cites the BofA’s strategists, led by Michael Hartnett, who wrote in a recent note that “US decoupling, flattening yield curve, collapsing EM — all echoes of 20 years ago.” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde holds the same opinion, stating, "The clouds on the horizon ... are getting darker by the day." She believes that "[t]he biggest and darkest cloud that we see is the deterioration in confidence that is prompted by [the] attempt to challenge the way in which trade has been conducted, in which relationships have been handled and the way in which multilateral organizations have been operating," obviously referring to the United States. George Soros, the US financier and business magnate, also thinks a major financial crisis is brewing, triggered by a surging dollar and the capital flight from emerging markets. Addressing the German parliament in early July, German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised the specter of a financial crisis provoked by US-launched trade wars.

It looks like the US economy has been cursed to relive a crisis every ten years, thus negatively affecting the whole world. Back in 1997-1998, Russia took a hard hit, but it learned its lessons and took steps to prepare for contingencies in advance. There seems to be some wisdom behind Russia’s policy. Others would do well to take a leaf from Russia’s book. Christine Lagarde has described the financial situation in Russia as “good news.” In her remarks at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in May, she praised Russia for “admirable macroeconomic framework—saving for a rainy day, letting the exchange rate float, introducing inflation targeting, and shoring up the banking system.” The country has virtually no fiscal deficit, a solid current account balance, and very little debt.

Strategic Culture

Arkady SAVITSKY - Russia: Sovereign and Well-Protected from Financial Storms

The Week — DOJ will start alerting the public about foreign election meddling

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said on Thursday that as soon as the Department of Justice learns that an American company, private organization, or person has been hacked or otherwise covertly attacked….

This promises to be fun.

The Week
DOJ will start alerting the public about foreign election meddling

See also

Politico
Justice Department unveils strategy to fight election meddling, cybercrime

Eric Geller

Wim Hordijk — The Evolutionary Roots of Irrationality

Standard economic theory assumes that humans behave fully rationally and are able to objectively calculate the value (or cost) of the different choices they are presented with. In fact, we pride ourselves on our rationality. Different from the animals, we humans have the unique capacity for logical thought and rational decision making. Or do we?

According to behavioral economist Dan Ariely, we should be less proud of ourselves. In his entertaining book Predictably Irrational, Ariely describes many case studies of every-day irrational human behavior. His simple but clever scientific experiments often require nothing more than a box of chocolates. However, subtle differences in the way these chocolates are offered to people can cause large and completely irrational differences in the way we behave. Moreover, these irrational behaviors fly square in the face of what conventional economic theory, based on rationality, would predict....

So much for methodological atomist in economics, or other social disciplines as James Buchanan's rational choice theory spreads.

Humans are not like atoms in physics and chemistry or even like cells in biology. They are not homogeneous and cannot be assumed to be so as the concepts of homo economicus and representative agent that underly neoclassical method do.  

Social systems in which human agents are elements, or families, do not resemble atoms and molecules closely enough to serve as a framework for representational models, where the arrangements of symbols in possibility space are asserted to reflect the configuration and behavior of objects in actual space with more than rough approximation.

Wim Hordik argues that this is not a imperfection, but rather an important aspect of the evolutionary development of humans that serves to protect. For example, if homo economicus were entirely true then life would be determined by quantity, objectivity and positivity, while quality, subjectivity and values would be largely excluded from importance and banished from consideration in decisions. The world would be colorless, so to speak.

The Evolution Institute
The Evolutionary Roots of Irrationality
Wim Hordijk | Senior Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria