The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Uri Avnery, 25/07/15
[The author is a former member of the Irgun, a hero of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, a former member of the Israeli Knesset, and Israel’s leading peace advocate. His awe inspiring biography can be found here.]
EXTRACT
He has practically declared war on the President of the United States, the Leader of the Free World, the Supreme Protector of the Jewish State.
CROWD-SOURCING THE TREATY VERIFICATION PROBLEM
“Never before has so much information and analysis been so widely and openly available. The opportunities for addressing future [treaty] monitoring challenges include the ability to track activity, materials and components in far more detail than previously, both for purposes of treaty verification and to counter WMD proliferation,” according to a recent study from the JASON defense science advisory panel. See Open and Crowd-Sourced Data for Treaty Verification, October 2014.
Continue reading “Steven Aftergood : JASON on Open Sources — 25 Years Late”
Anonymous NYT Review of Books
Nothing since the triumph of the Vandals in Roman North Africa has seemed so sudden, incomprehensible, and difficult to reverse as the rise of ISIS. None of our analysts, soldiers, diplomats, intelligence officers, politicians, or journalists has yet produced an explanation rich enough—even in hindsight—to have predicted the movement’s rise.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: The Mystery of ISIS — Robert Steele: The Mendacity of the West”
Without reference to Boyd Sutton or anyone else of note.
Rethinking the Concept of Global Coverage in the U.S. Intelligence Community
Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2015
African governments sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal
African governments, ignoring the protests of their farmers and civil society, this week agreed an oppressive ‘plant variety protection protocol' that will open up their countries to commercial seed monopolists, while limiting farmers rights to save, use, exchange, replant, improve, distribute and sell the seeds they have developed over countless generations. The Arusha Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants regional legal framework gives intellectual property rights to breeders while restricting the age-old practices of African farmers to freely save, use, share and sell seeds and/or propagating material.
What's the economy all about … is it people, or finance?
Because You're Worthless – Challenging The Current Economic System in 3 Minutes
Poem by Agnes Török on the news of a new Conservative budget. Based on experiences of living in Britain under austerity as a young, queer, unemployed, female immigrant student – and not taking it any more.
Phi Beta Iota: Art trumps corruption in 3 minutes. YouTube (3:12) top stuff.
The next attache from DHS will have their work cut out for them.
In Mexico, escaped ‘El Chapo’ is folk hero no. 1
For many Mexicans, he is an unusual combination of Robin Hood and billionaire.
He fought the law, and he won. He beat what many Mexicans see as a corrupt and feckless governing class.
