The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Detailed overview of the military-industrial complex think tanks used to skew policy toward military spending and elective wars.
Meet The Big Wallets Pushing Obama Towards A New Cold War
Phi Beta Iota: Beyond this “lite” level of subversion lie banks and the cabal on top of the banks for whom war, human trafficking, drugs, money laundering, and pedophilia are all part of the “grease” for how they do business.
A 2008 paper by Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan, and Suresh Naidu found evidence that the CIA and/or members of the Executive branch either disclosed or acted on information about top-secret authorizations of coups. Stocks in “highly exposed” firms rose more in the pre-coup authorization phase than they did when the coup was actually launched.
Continue reading “Antechinus: Spy agencies use metadata for market advantage”
If we cannot tell ourselves the truth, corrective choices are not possible. Here is the truth about the integrity of America's electoral process. We come in 26th in the world, one step above Mexico. Nothing to be proud of.
America’s election nightmare: How voter ID, gerrymandering & fundraising made us a laughingstock
Here's what happens when you suppress votes, draw districts to favor incumbents and allow the rich to buy elections
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Brian Jacob Church spent the better part of a day shackled inside Chicago's Homan Square, denied access to an attorney, before police finally sent him to be booked and charged. Lawyers say the facility is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
• The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site'
• Homan Square ‘black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage
Video from The Guardian below the fold.
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The Greek Tragedy: Some things not to forget, which the new Greek leaders have not.
American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”
Continue reading “William Blum: Greek Tragedy, US Hypocrisy”
Invite your attention to attached paper on lying in the Army from the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute. Authors are two War College professors, both retired Army officers and West Point graduates.
Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession
Authored by Dr. Leonard Wong, Dr. Stephen J. Gerras.
Why the Iraq Offensive Will Fail
Unless the president faces up to the real threat, the plans to retake Mosul don’t have a chance.
Politico, 20 February 2015
We, as a nation, must accept and face the reality that we and other contributing nations of the world are at war, and not just in Iraq. We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it. This enemy is far broader than the 40,000 or so fighters in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. There also exists a large segment of this radical version of Islam in over 90 nations abroad as well as here at home. Just ask those countries from which foreign fighters are flowing into the Levant to support this “jihad.”
Continue reading “Mike Flynn: Iraq Offensive Will Fail — Robert Steele: Yes But…”
