The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The below two headlines should give the 1% great pause.
ISIS: Western Journalist Embedded With Group Says He Came Into Contact With Americans
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The Spectacular Media Failure on Charlie Hebdo
Shamus Cooke
CounterPunch, 14 January 2015
The U.S.-backed Afghan jihad was the birth of the modern Islamic fundamentalist movement. The jihad attracted and helped organize fundamentalists across the region, as U.S. allies in the Gulf state dictatorships used the state religion to promote it. Fighters who traveled to fight in Afghanistan returned to their home countries with weapon training and hero status that inspired others to join the movement.
Et tu, Brute?
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By removing Assad, Obama may be declaring war on China
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President Obama continues to operate with large blind spots when it comes to Chinese interests, risking strategic misjudgment according to Professor Zhen Wang of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Seton Hall University. Wang argues this is not surprising given the Obama administration’s China policy suffers from a rather incompetent China team, “including senior positions in the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon, [that] are currently being held by ‘young people’ who don’t have long-term experience in dealing with China policy…many of whom are not even China experts.”
A possible model for true cost economics movement.
What's in your technology may shock you…
Your daily life requires vital minerals that may originate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other countries.
Tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold are referred to as conflict minerals.
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More Small Wars: Counterinsurgency Is Here to Stay
Max Boot
Foreign Affairs, November/December 2014
Since Washington doesn’t have the luxury of simply avoiding insurgencies, then, the best strategy would be to fight them better. Drawn from more than a decade of war, here are ten lessons for how to do so, which U.S. policymakers, soldiers, diplomats, and spies should keep in mind as they try to deal with the chaotic conflicts to come.
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