The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
… we reward incompetence and/or lying as described below in the essay by Robert Parry? Chuck Spinney The Blaster Gates Agrees, Bush’s Wars Were Nuts By Robert Parry, consortiumnews.com, February 27, 2011 When Defense Secretary Robert Gates told West Point cadets that you’d have to be crazy to commit U.S. troops to wars like those …
Advocates of humanitarian intervention like to use Kosovo as an example of a “good” war to distinguish it from Bush’s bad war in Iraq and the Bush/Obama bungles in Afghanistan. But Kosovo was a template for bungling and blowback in the wars of empire that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The below …
Weekend Edition February 25 – 26, 2011 A Jittery GCC: Bahrain and the “Freedom Contagion” By RANNIE AMIRI, Counterpunch “Saudi Arabia did not build a causeway to Bahrain just so that Saudis could party on weekends. It was designed for moments like this, for keeping Bahrain under control.” – Dr. Toby Jones, expert on Saudi …
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The price of food is at the heart of this wave of revolutions No one saw the uprisings coming, but their deeper cause isn’t hard to fathom By Peter Popham Independent, Sunday, 27 February 2011 Revolution is breaking out all over. As Gaddafi marshals his thugs and mercenaries for a last-ditch fight in Tripoli, several …
20110226 The Complete Spengler Single posting of all past posts with links. Selected posts: 20110215 The Internet bubble in Middle East politics 20090418 And Spengler is …[David P. Goldman] 20090209 Who are the ‘extraordinary’ Muslims? 2009 Save less, breed more 20090330 The gods are stupid Phi Beta Iota: “Spengler” is channeled by David P Goldman, …
ECONOMIC SCENE Why Budget Cuts Don’t Bring Prosperity By DAVID LEONHARDT New York Times, February 22, 2011 Remember the German economic boom of 2010? Germany’s economic growth surged in the middle of last year, causing commentators both there and here to proclaim that American stimulus had failed and German austerity had worked. Germany’s announced budget …
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Another blockbuster by Rolling Stone raises a basic question of just who the military views as the real enemy — the threat posed by the Taliban or the threat to its money flow posed by Congress and the American people. Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone, 23 February 2011 …
