The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Food for thought. Since 9-11, the United States has been violating all five criteria for a sensible grand strategy. Left unchecked, it will eventually generate the mother of blow backs. Ann Jones has written a personal vignette to goes to the heart of our growing grand strategic crisis on a deeply personal level — most of it has to …
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Can a Gold-Plated Military Counter ISIS? Lightly armed guerrilla/insurgent/terrorist forces are once again holding off the high-tech, heavily armed forces of the United States. War with Isis: Despite billions spent on weapons, the US has not been able to counter the militants’ gruesome tactics The West needs more than a ‘White Knight’ if it wants …
Below is superb piece of reportage by Marisa Taylor of the Washington McClatchy bureau. By a meticulous compilation of facts, Ms. Taylor has painted a detailed portrait of how this homeostatic control system protects normalcy in bureaucratic cultures. The only point I would disagree with is her characterization of this system as being “broken.” To my thinking, …
The USA: Australia’s Dangerous Ally Australia should not embrace America, writes its former prime minister, but preserve itself from Washington’s reckless overreach. By Malcolm Fraser,December 17, 2014 IT IS time for Australia to end its strategic dependence on the United States. Four reasons and more.
Politics in the Time of Low-Information Voters Did America Really Shift to the Right? by HARVEY B. FEIGENBAUM, Counterpunch, WEEKEND EDITION NOVEMBER 21–23, 2014 See Also: SchwartzReport: Joseph Stiglitz on Choices
Al Jazeera America has produced a damning TV documentary on Israel’s deliberate and unprovoked attack on the U.S.N.S. Liberty, a WWII Navy liberty ship that had been converted into electronics snooper to support the NSA by listening in on other nation’s electronic transmissions. The attack occurred in international waters, in clear weather, at 2PM on 8 June …
Phi Beta Iota: We use the TIME Cover for Chuck Spinney to make the point that today, 35 years after he blew the whistle on defense mis-management, in such depth as to warrant a TIME Cover, we still have not corrected any of the deficiencies he brought forth. Defense acquisition remains corrupt to the bone, …
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