The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Pakistan: An elite police commando from the provincial police force who was assigned as a bodyguard for the governor of Punjab Province murdered the governor today in Islamabad. The commando dropped his weapon and surrendered to the police, bragging that he was proud he killed a blasphemer. With that, Pakistan’s political crisis deepened.
Pakistan: On 2 January the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced the leadership’s decision to withdraw from the ruling government coalition and join the opposition in the National Assembly and in the Senate, Dawn News reported, citing an MQM spokesman.
Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists by Angel Rabasa, Stacie Pettyjohn, Jeremy Ghez, Christopher Boucek RAND Monograph 2010 242 Pages Free Online or $26 Proactive measures to prevent vulnerable individuals from radicalizing and to rehabilitate those who have already embraced extremism have been implemented, to varying degrees, in several Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and European countries. A key …
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Michael Vlahos is Professor of Strategy at the United States Naval War College. His is the author of Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change, an analysis of how war — as sacred ritual — shapes collective identity: And what it means in culture to be human. His career includes service in the Navy, the …
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Much ado is being made of the “revelation” in the Wikileaks data dump that some Sunni Arab leaders were quietly in favor of an American and/or Israeli strike on Iran to terminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program with extreme prejudice. Implicit in this war-mongering hysteria is an acceptance of an implacable Shia-Sunni conflict threatening the …
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Sarah Palin Book ‘America By Heart’ Hits Obama, Defends Actions (ADVANCE EXCERPTS) Sam Stein and Lisa Shapiro, Huffington Post 19 November 2010 In her newest book, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin sharply criticizes the record of President Barack Obama while defending her own, in the process offering an unapologetic vision of conservative politics that strongly …
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From Jerusalem to Cordoba Here’s a press release for a performance I’m co-producing with Scoop Sweeney: AUSTIN – Catherine Braslavsky and Joseph Rowe will bring their musical performance, “From Jerusalem to Cordoba,” from Paris to Austin on December 3, 7pm at St. David’s Episcopal Church, Bethell Hall, 301 E. 8th St., Austin, 78701-3280. The performance …
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