The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who has been neutralized by the succession of Russian rulers, especially Putin) has just advised President Obama to get out of Afghanistan. Jonathan Steele suggests here (also attached below) that Obama ought to heed that advice, because Obama is in a similar albeit somewhat worse position than Gorbachev was in 1985-6. Analogies are dangerous, because …
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This op-ed is consistent with what I have learned about and experienced in Turkey. Chuck October 25, 2010 Turkey Steps Out By ROGER COHEN ANKARA — Davutogluism is a mouthful. It’s not going to make Fox News any time soon. But if I could escort Sarah Palin, Tea Partiers and a few bigoted anti-Muslim Europeans …
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Published online 21 July 2010 | Nature 466, 432-434 (2010) Ecology: A world without mosquitoes Eradicating any organism would have serious consequences for ecosystems — wouldn’t it? Not when it comes to mosquitoes, finds Janet Fang. (download pdf version) Every day, Jittawadee Murphy unlocks a hot, padlocked room at the Walter Reed Army Institute of …
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China-Iran: China’s Railways Minister Liu Zhijun will visit Tehran on 12 September to sign a contract between Iran and a Chinese company to build a $2 billion rail link to Iran, according to Iranian Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani. Transport ministers from Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran are expected to gather in Dushanbe in October to firm …
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Author’s Two Points: NSA as Enabler of Tyranny, Channel for Israel, October 19, 2008
The Government Accountability Office identified 19 global organizations “whose international activities significantly influence the security and governance of cyberspace.” The organizations range from information-sharing forums that are non-decision-making gatherings of experts to private organizations to treaty-based, decision-making bodies founded by countries. The groups address a variety of topics from incident response, the development of technical …
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You gotta love it when the War Party reveals its desperation to come up with yet another soundbyte to justify continuing the long Afghan War — a war becoming known to cynics in the Hall of Mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac as the Great Afghan Cash Cow, because it is a golden cornucopia …
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