The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
DEFENSE: Iranian Mass Production of Coastal Submarines
OPEN: interview With FBI Profiler of Psychopaths, Mary Ellen O'Toole
OPEN: Italy Rise of Pitchfork Populists (USA Next?)
OPEN: Missing Links: Access to Papers' Raw Data Plummets by 17% Each Year
OPEN: NSA Mismanagement, NSA Retaliation Against Whistleblowers (Kirb Wiebe)
ANALYSIS: Methodology to Analyze Future Security Threats (3): Scenarios as an Organic Living System
BOOK: Evaluation Methodologies for Aid in Conflict
BOOK: Global Intellectual History
BOOK: Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present
CYBER: 2014 Top Cyber Security Threats
CYBER: Increasing Anti-Surveillance Momentum and the Necessary and Proportionate Principles (EFF)
CYBER: Russia Internet Extremism Bill
CYBER: Trojan.Skimer.18 Infects ATMs
CYBER: World's Biggest Data Breaches Visualized
OPEN: US, India, & Gulf (Cordesman)
OPEN: US & UK Close Relations with Gaddafi Intel
THREAT: CAR Humanitarian Crisis Testimony (Schneider)
Afghanistan-Iran-India: Since 8 December a strategic readjustment has taken place in South Asia, at least on the surface. Afghanistan has entered potentially significant agreements with Iran and India.
Included in this interesting essay about the situation in Ukraine is a useful reminder of how the West succumbed to the short-term temptations of triumphalism when Gorbachev ended the Cold War in the early 1990s.
The Risks of the EU's Geopolitics on the Cheap in Ukraine
by Vadim Nikitin, Agence-Global
Released: 09 Dec 2013
A clear sense of déjà vu shrouds the Ukrainian protests. The demonstrators’ relentless calls for Western-style democracy evoke the idealism of the political rallies during the last years of the USSR, when thousands took to the streets of Moscow demanding freedom and opportunity. Then as now, citizens hungry to escape low living standards, a stagnant economy and a corrupt and cynical regime looked to Europe for hope.
Yet that experience ended in bitter disappointment when the West took advantage of Russia’s liberalisation without delivering on the newly free Russian citizens’ hope for a better life. The resulting backlash helped pave the way for Russia’s current authoritarianism. By playing on the exaggerated expectations of Kiev’s current protesters in order to achieve its economic and geopolitical objectives while giving Ukraine only vague assurances in return, the EU risks making a similar mistake with potentially even graver consequences.
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Risks of EU's Blowing Up Ukraine on the Cheap”
The U.S. Drives the World Toward War
Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings.
These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both US soldiers and the attacked civilian populations.
None of these wars appears to have any compelling reason or justifiable explanation.
The wars have been important to the profits of the military/security complex.
The wars have provided cover for the construction of a Stasi police state in America, and the wars have served Israel’s interest by removing obstacles to Israel’s annexation of the entire West Bank and southern Lebanon.
