The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Note the contradiction between the planned personnel cuts and the comments on the urgency of keeping the volunteer force intact and coherent. The Battle For The Military’s Future Walter Pincus The Washington Post, 13 June 2012 “The face of war, the face of how we do business, is changing.” That’s retired Marine Corps Gen. James …
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Occupy Rio+20 Publishes Open Source Imperative The following statement will be presented by the Earth Summit WG to the United Nations as a participating group in the Rio+20 conference in Brasil. The Open Source Imperative Hello World, We Who Occupy The Earth thank the UN for supporting civil society through granting us “interested party” status …
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Attached is a really first rate assessment of the real benefits and costs of the American infatuation with drone warfare. The writer, Patrick Cockburn, is one of the very best reporters now covering the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. Chuck Spinney Cap Ferat, France America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda World View: …
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The Spread of Sacrifice Zones By David Swanson Chris Hedge’s and Joe Sacco’s new book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, is a treasure. Hedges wrote the plain text. Sacco produced the text-heavy cartoon sections and other illustrations, which even I — not a big fan of cartoon books — found to enrich this book …
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Chapter 1 Open Sesame Extract III …when the human is commoditized, capitalism fails; when the human is unleashed, capitalism benefits all. The industrial era sentences most men and women and children to lives as inert “cogs” in a system that denies their humanity, and in denying their humanity, represses the very God-given or cosmos-inherent capacities …
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In the late 1980s, under the leadership of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, the Pentagon began to privatise many of the military’s support services that had traditionally be done soldiers, sailors, and airmen — laundries, dining halls, security guards, cleaning latrines, some supply functions, etc. It was argued at the time that this would save …
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The Amazing Expanding Pentagon After a decade of ‘mission creep’–into diplomacy, agriculture, even energy policy–the Department of Defense has become America’s default tool for dealing with the world. Where does this leave the next president? By Thanassis Cambanis Boston Globe, May 27, 2012 When President Obama and Mitt Romney cross swords on defense policy, it …
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