The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The NSA, Snowden and the Media By Robert Dover e-International Relations on January 15, 2014 As Michael Goodman and I tried to whimsically note in the sub-title of our edited collection on intelligence and the media – media needs intelligence and intelligence needs the media. The symbiosis of this relationship can be partly found in …
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BOOK: The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes Also: Radio Interview with Author BUDGET: Congress Wants More Insight into Cyber, SOF Budgets CYBER: Cyberwar Increasingly Defined By Espionage and Regional Conflicts, Argues FireEye CYBER: DDoS New Technique, Warns US-CERT CYBER: Google Spyware SMS Tracker CYBER: How Jihadists Use the Internet
The Afghan adventure is ending in a disaster. The outsiders are again leaving with their tails between their legs. This will be the fourth time for the Brits. For the U.S. Afghanistan is just another disaster in what what is becoming a dreary pattern of military failures at ever higher costs. Predictably, President Obama’s surge …
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Worth a close read. Rosy Assumptions: U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Post-2014 EXTRACT: A handy rule of strategy-making is to first list the assumptions that undergird the strategy’s logic and to identify any risks that might interfere with those assumptions. And this document attempts to do just that. With violence in Afghanistan just as high as …
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The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power Geopolitical Weekly Stratfor Editor’s Note: The following Geopolitical Weekly originally ran in January 2013. By George Friedman When I wrote about the crisis of unemployment in Europe, I received a great deal of feedback. Europeans agreed that this is the core problem while Americans argued that the United States …
Attached below are two very important reports by two of the most astute observers of conflicts in the Middle East. The first is a precisely-focused report by Rami Khouri, editor at large of Lebanon’s Daily Star. Khouri analyzes how the recent assassination of Mohamad Chatah needs to be interpreted in the context of complexities of …
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I’ve scooped before about Ann Blair’s book of pre-modern info-overload — and what was done about. This is a nice short musing about today’s information overload discourse. Information Overload, Past and Present Dan Cohen The end of this year has seen much handwringing over the stress of information overload: the surging, unending streams, the inexorable …
