The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Note: This Reuters report provides additional relevant information. A pdf copy of the referenced ICG report can be downloaded from this link: Afghanistan: Exit vs. Engagement Chuck Spinney December 2, 2010 The Unmentioned Question Staying the Course in Afghanistan By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch A report, “Afghanistan: Exit vs. Engagement” released on 28 November 2010 by …
David Petraeus — Hero Celebrity By Michael Brenner (Senior Fellow, the Center for Transatlantic Relations) – Huffington Post – December 2, 2010 There is one celebrity with the makings of a national hero, someone who has the qualities that might carry him right into the White House. It is David Petraeus. He is almost universally …
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Iranians (Persians) have viewed Russia (Soviet Union) with distrust and as a menace or outright threat for hundreds of years, at least since the Russian Tsars cemented their expansion into Turkestan (or the Turkic countries in what is now called Central Asia). The fact that Iran sits on top of one of the world’s largest …
Wikipedia Overview No Labels Home Page See Also: The founding fathers had no labels (San Diego Examiner) WARNING NOTICE: http://www.taylormarsh.com has a major virus. Do NOT go to their story on the Houston meeting (apart from its being hype, now it’s just plain dangerous). Phi Beta Iota: We believe the following: 1. Michael Bloomberg wants …
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Much ado is being made of the “revelation” in the Wikileaks data dump that some Sunni Arab leaders were quietly in favor of an American and/or Israeli strike on Iran to terminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program with extreme prejudice. Implicit in this war-mongering hysteria is an acceptance of an implacable Shia-Sunni conflict threatening the …
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Attached is a first rate essay that should be studied carefully. Chuck ANNALS OF ECONOMICS WHAT GOOD IS WALL STREET? Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless. by John Cassidy, New Yorker NOVEMBER 29, 2010 For years, the most profitable industry in America has been one that doesn’t design, build, or sell a …
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Did the ancients understand debt better than the moderns? Watch this — note particularly the comment wrt to writing off the toxic debt of Lehman Bros. Chuck Six minutes with the renegade ecnomist – Michael Hudson Special Phi Beta Iota: More than six minutes–a special with decisive commentary on the government’s failure to save the …
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