The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
America’s Drug Empire Narcotics: Business of Western wars “Heroin trafficking is the lubrication that keeps the wheels of Western politics moving as intended.” It was only a week ago that the US government released Eric Harroun, a former soldier who had been fighting with foreign backed al-Qaeda terrorists and the CIA against the Assad …
“The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984, (said Guardian Editor) Alan Rusbridger . ‘Orwell could never have imagined this concept of scooping up everything all the time’. The NSA stories were ‘clearly’ not about totalitarianism, but an infrastructure had been created that could be dangerous if it fell …
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Book review: ‘Thank You for Your Service’ by David Finkel By Andrew Bacevich Andrew J. Bacevich teaches at Boston University. His new book is “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.” Nominally a sequel to The Good Soldiers, his 2009 account of an American infantry battalion at war in Iraq, David …
In identifying “difficult subordinates who should have been promoted, I should have included Colonels Doug Macgreagor and Jim Burton and especially Major Don Vandergriff. Sorry for the omission CS note – Hersh channels John Boyd* : my comments are inserted in “blue” [italics] my added emphasis to Sy’s words in bold black. Of course, this …
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U.S. command in Afghanistan gives Army 60 days to fix or replace intel network The Pentagon’s main battlefield intelligence network in Afghanistan is vulnerable to hackers — both the enemy or a leaker — and the U.S. command in Kabul will cut it off from the military’s classified data files unless the Army fixes the …
CIA’s Deadly Cultural Ignorance Fear of officers “going native” keeps our intelligence agencies ill-informed about Somalia, Syria, and other hotspots. When the British ran an empire they did it the right way, if one is into imperial management. They created an entire bureaucracy, the Colonial Service, which was manned by officers who were expected to …
Thanks Jill for passing this over…..I will comment throughout. This is exactly where I got my feet wet and where the real power of the world resides and that is with the true owners of these instruments. All governments are loaned these and of course there is a history on that alone. benjamin July 2, …
