The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Pope Francis criticizes ‘dictators' and ‘tyrants'
Asked by a Cuban student about the example of his leadership, Francis said, “I will tell you one thing, a good leader is one who is capable of bringing up other leaders. If a leader wants to lead alone, he is a tyrant. True leadership is fruitful. Each one of you has the seed of leadership.” He added, “The leaders of today will not be here tomorrow. If they do not plant the seed of leadership in others, they are worthless. They are dictators.”
Pope and change: How Francis visit is disrupting U.S. politics
Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 13 September 2015
Phi Beta Iota: Read it! The Pope has the power to mobilize a margin of victory for a Democratic or Independent candidate committed to addressing the top three threats to humanity (poverty, disease, and environmental degradation). The Pope also has a problem: the conservative nature of the Church drives the progressive left that cares about all three issues out of the Church and out of hearing. In the hands of God.
US War Theories Target Dissenters
Exclusive: In the Orwellian world of Official Washington, the U.S. government is now wedded to the theory of “information warfare,” meaning that Americans who challenge national security policy may be treated as “unprivileged belligerents” under the new Law of War doctrine, retired JAG Major Todd E. Pierce writes.
Overview of an emerging possibility.
Issue No. 26: “The Antidote to a Broken Political System”
In a piece for the Daily Beast Monday, James K. Glassman, former Under Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration, made an impassioned – and, in our view, logical – case for a separate online national primary contest to choose a single independent candidate to go up against the Republican and Democratic nominees in the three final presidential debates in the fall of 2016.
Continue reading “John Steiner: Proposal for an Independent Primary”
Refugee Flows: a Grand Strategic Weapon of Mass Destruction
by FRANKLIN SPINNEY, Counterpunch, SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
EXTRACT
Pro-Israeli American neocons, who promoted the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of the Assad regime, may well think that Israel is the prime strategic beneficiary of the breakup of Iraq and Syria. However, the reality is that Israel is now faced with the spectre of horrendous and unending blowback over the long term at the more decisive grand strategic level of conflict.
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: US-Iran Strategic Convergence?”
