The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is a truly spectacular tubesteak in the April Fools Day issue of the American Conservative produced with verve by two writers I am proud to call my friends!!!!!! Chuck Mindless Missiles The Pentagon’s drone budget is on autopilot. BY WINSLOW T. WHEELER AND PIERRE M. SPREY American Conservative, 1 April 2010 Today’s Pentagon is …
FIVE STARS The People We Pay to Look Over Our Shoulders By ERIC LICHTBLAU By Shane Harris At this very moment analysts at the National Security Agency some 30 miles north of the White House are monitoring countless flashpoints of data — cellphone calls to “hot” numbers, an e-mail message on a suspicious server, an …
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One of Two “Best” on China in Africa February 22, 2010 Robert I. Rotberg, contributing editor Of the modest number of books focused on China in Africa, this is one of the two best, and both are unique–if you buy only one, at least read my summary of the other, China Safari: On the Trail …
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“Mark to Market” is (or was?) an accounting standard that required financial institutions to value their assets at their current market value. Thus a stock portfolio would be valued at an amount determined by the stock market, if the stock holder sold all his assets in that market. Last Spring, when the government was contemplating …
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One Tribe at a Time Can the U.S. military devise a successful strategy to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan? It already has the outline of a potentially successful strategy, just read Major Jim Gant’s “One Tribe at a Time (A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan)”, previously posted here, Reference: One Tribe at …
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Climate change may be an “accelerant of instability” in future conflicts, and the U.S. military needs to plan for possible environmental catastrophes and resource wars, according to the Pentagon’s soon-to-be-released master strategy document. Among other things, the draft QDR suggests the military will have to start planning for operations in which rising sea levels, an …
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Obama’s Credibility Gap (New York Times) Americans are still looking for the answer, and if they don’t get it soon — or if they don’t like the answer — the president’s current political problems will look like a walk in the park. Public Rifts On Afghanistan: Leaks suggest that the administration is divided, endangering Obama’s …
