The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dear friends, Rebecca Solnit has written a great article on Occupy, relationships, differences, violence, and a lot more. A potent, passionate framing for our times, worth a full, reflective read. Note that the original is full of juicy links. Coheartedly, Tom ======== Mad, Passionate Love — and Violence: Occupy Heads into the Spring by Rebecca …
The 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran 1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that’s a war crime. War crimes must be punished. 2. My television says Iran has nukes. I’m sure it’s true this time. Just like with North Korea. I’m sure they’re next. We only bomb places that really …
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Recommended by Paul Craig Roberts, Institute for Political Economy John Pilger describes the reality hidden behind the cloak of anglo-american “democracy.” Phi Beta Iota: This describes the crime against humanity, the atrocity, of cleansing the population of the islands now known as Diego Garcia. If We the People do not hold our government accountable, then …
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Get past the communist source. Focus on the substance. Focus on the fact that no one in the West is paying attention, no western media is reporting on this. Then focus on the fact that India is the largest most complex diverse country on the planet. Why this Countrywide General Strike? People’s Democracy: Weekly Organ …
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Why Students Are Hunger Striking in Virginia Twelve students at the University of Virginia on Saturday began a hunger strike for a living wage policy for university employees. They’ve taken this step after having exhausted just about every other possible approach over a period of 14 years. I was part of the campaign way back …
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Why Developers are So Important Original Post 10 June 2010. Hot now. I was asked a question by @mollsiebee from Fierce Government IT at the InformationWeek GovernmentIT Leadership Forum a couple weeks ago, that I didn’t do a good job of responding to. The question — as I recall — was why developers matter if …
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I have begun drafting my portion of the new Handbook of Intelligence Studies (Routledge, 2013), it is a chapter early on entitled “The Craft of Intelligence.” I pick up where Allen Dulles and Sherman Kent left off. My graphic on Intelligence Maturity captures the essence of my thinking at the strategic level, but of course …
