The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
One of the poorest regions in Afghanistan is teaching the world about sustainability
The Rural Green Environment Organization is entirely rewriting the environmental narrative for 90 villages and 40,000 people in Badakhshan, Afghanistan. The region has endured decades of conflict, insecurity and the overharvesting of natural resources. What was once a region battered by conflict and environmental degradation is now flourishing.
It's Been 50 Years Since the Biggest US-Backed Genocide You've Never Heard Of
As many as 1 million people were killed by Indonesia's Cold War regime—and we still don't know the full story of our government's involvement.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: US-Sponsored Genocide — One Source of Illegal Refugees”
Below at the close of this excellent opinion piece by Pat Lang is sensible prescription for shaping a schwerpunkt in so-called Global War on Terror or GWOT. Lang cuts thru the Gordian Knot of inwardly focused contradictions that are overloading and paralyzing America’s grand strategy* in the Syrian Civil War and turning our country into a international laughing stock on steroids.
Pat Lang's conclusion brought forward:
What to do?- I was asked today to state what I think should be done:
* Accept the truth that we destroyed the Iraqi state and from that act of vandalism all present chaos in that country derives.
* Don't do it again in Syria.
Nuclear TSUNAMI: ISIS wants to wipe hundreds of millions from face of the earth
ISLAMIC State is a ‘nuclear tsunami’ that wants to wipe hundreds of millions from the face of the earth in the biggest religious holocaust the world has ever seen.
The claim comes from a veteran German journalist who is the only reporter to have been allowed to operate as an ‘embed’ with ISIS and escape alive. Jürgen Todenhöfer, 75, a former MP with Angela Merkel's CDU party, became a reporter in 2000 and has specialized in war reporting. He spent 10 harrowing days on the ISIS frontline, dodging bullets and death threats…
Volkswagen Scandal Confirms the Dangers of Proprietary Code
There is one notable aspect to the Volkswagen emission-cheating scandal that few commentators have mentioned: It would not have happened if the software for the pollution-control equipment had been open source. Volkswagen knew it could defraud consumers and deceive regulators precisely because its software was closed, proprietary and legally protected from outside scrutiny. Hardly anyone could readily check to see if the software was performing as claimed.
It's all about who controls the food supply, and how many chemicals we can “input” in the process. Climate change is such a hot button, the agrochemical companies just have to use it to promote their solutions.
No to Climate Smart Agriculture
‘Climate Smart Agriculture' is agribusiness' latest attempt to promote industrial farming and undermine agro-ecological approaches generally recognized as the real solution to food production under climate change
‘Nuclear war our likely future': Russia & China won't accept US hegemony, Reagan official warns
Key quote:
… the “price of world peace is the world’s acceptance of Washington’s hegemony.”
Continue reading “Michael Kearns: Absent US Change, Nuclear War Likely”
