The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sun Tzu or Bismarck: Who will Prevail in the 21st Century? [Note: this first appeared in Time’s Battleland Blog (here)], The first three chapters in Sun Tzu’s timeless classic “The Art of War” describe how to make net assessments by comparing your strengths and weaknesses and those of your adversary and how to formulate strategy. Near …
Will Iran Be Attacked? Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran. There is speculation that Washington has called off its two longest running wars–Iraq and Afghanistan–in order to deploy forces against Iran. Two of Washington’s fleets have been assigned to the Persian Gulf along with NATO warships. Missiles have been spread …
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Shaping the Popular Psyche in America’s Post-Information Era: Why the US & Israel May Agree to Bombing Iran by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch, December 12, 2011 The arguments for attacking Iran are crazy, like those for attacking Iraq in response to 9-11. But that does not mean such an attack by the American and/or the …
If you build it, they will come…. CIA’s Push for Drone War Driven by Internal Needs Gareth Porter The World News, 6 September 2011 EXTRACT: The shift in the CIA mission’s has been reflected in the spectacular growth of its Counter-terrorism Center (CTC) from 300 employees in September 2001 to about 2,000 people today – …
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This blaster is intended to bring two very important reports and a short third report to your attention. The three should be thought about together. 1 is an essay by Robert Parry Consortium News. It is an excellent summary of the last 10 years of perpetual war and the debacle wrought by the Neoconmen. It also …
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National Intelligence Estimate Failed to Register Taliban Growth Deferring to Petraeus By GARETH PORTER, Counterpunch, 14 February 2011 Despite evidence that the Taliban insurgency had grown significantly in 2010, the U.S. intelligence community failed to revise its estimate for Taliban forces as part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan in December. That unusual …
Continue reading “US Intelligence Lies to “Defer” to General Petraeus”
Iranians (Persians) have viewed Russia (Soviet Union) with distrust and as a menace or outright threat for hundreds of years, at least since the Russian Tsars cemented their expansion into Turkestan (or the Turkic countries in what is now called Central Asia). The fact that Iran sits on top of one of the world’s largest …
