This article is really quite incendiary. I would have excerpted different passages which I feel to be quite revealing.
I hope people take the time to read this article in its entirety.
Knowledge can never be "incendiary". We are either aware of certain things, or we're not.
Incendiary is only possible when our ignorance angers us. Most new knowledge is simply verification of prior suspicions, or common sense.
All countries have their own self interest as central to their behavior. Ours seems to be the only one determined to self destruct.
For noble reasons, of course.