The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Bad management drives talent from CIA, internal reports suggest Frustration with poor managers is costing the CIA some of its most talented staff, internal surveys and former officers say. By Ken Dilanian Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2013 WASHINGTON — For the Central Intelligence Agency, he was a catch: an American citizen who had grown …
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The corporate media’s long relationship with the spook world may help explain why it doesn’t like Snowden Sam Smith, Undernews, 2013-07-07 11:15 AM This obituary is of note because it is a rare example of that long-time media bedfellow of spooks, the Washington Post, telling a piece of the story of the long relationship between …
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After leaving The Washington Post in 1977, Carl Bernstein spent six months looking at the relationship of the CIA and the press during the Cold War years. His 25,000-word cover story, published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977, is reprinted below. THE CIA AND THE MEDIA How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand …
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deadSwap Artistic Statement A major impact of the commercialization of the Internet has been the undermining of its peer-to-peer architecture. As Capital must always control the circulation of value in order to appropriate surplus, its champions view peer networks as a threat. The Web, although it sits on top of the Internet, is not a …
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ROBERT STEELE: I have been watching with growing concern as Phi Beta Iota has posted a string of relatively radical posts on the Boston bombing and Texas fertilizer explosion. As most know, I lean toward transparency, truth, and trust, and the last thing I would want to do is marginalize these voices for truth and …
The C.I.A.: A National Liability? Michael Brenner Senior Fellow, the Center for Transatlantic Relations; Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh Huffington Post, 22 April 2013 The errant actions of the C.I.A. are by now so evident that they are a staple of Washington conversation. Like the weather, though, it is the topic everybody talks …
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Washingtonpost.com, March 29, 2013 Drawing Down, But Still Projecting Power By David Ignatius TAMPA–The emblem of the U.S. Special Operations Command pointedly illustrates its mission: It shows the tip of a spear. Now SOCOM is expanding this arsenal to create a global network that can project power even as America’s armies withdraw from the battlefields …
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