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.
Jonathan Steele reviews Richard Sakwa’s important new book, “Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands.”
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa review – an unrivalled account
At last, a balanced assessment of the Ukrainian conflict – the problems go far beyond Vladimir Putin
Jonathan Steele, Guardian, 19 February 2015 05.29 EST
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Balanced Assessment of Ukraine”
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.
Continue reading “Mongoose: A Domestic Black Site in Chicago?”
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”
I know very few doctors who are genuinely happy with the state of medicine in the U.S., and there is no question that we have notably inferior healthcare. The illness profit system is incredibly lucrative for its corporate owners. Absolutely top of the line in terms of profit. In terms of health, not so much. We pay more than any other country in the world for what outcome data shows is the 37th best healthcare.
Big Pharma Is America’s New Mafia
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…”
