The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Chuck Spinney’s flagging of the below piece supports the point we were making with the post on dynamic planning. For fifty years the USA has been throwing its weight around on the basis of partisan, ideological, and often illegimiate purposes, and it has been able to get a way with it because …
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Nicht Schwerpunkt as a Prescription for Defeat by a 1000 Cuts Recent events like the Fort Hood Massacre and the bungled attempt to fire bomb the airliner bound for Detroit have focused attention on and encouraged our escalating intervention in Yemen, which has been taking place quietly, as if Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan were not …
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Detroit jet terrorist attack was staged – journalist The recent failed attack on a US passenger jet traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit was a set-up provocation controlled by US intelligence, author and journalist Webster Tarpley stated to RT. “[The terrorist’s] father, a rich Nigerian banker, went to the US embassy in Nigeria on November 19 …
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Roadside Bomb Hunting: Learned Skill or Intuition? With IED casualties since 2001 mounting (2,451 dead, 23,650 wounded, in Iraq and Afghanistan as of Dec. 5), the military is mounting a determined effort to find out whether spotting IEDs is an intuitive, innate skill, like the ability to quickly pick up a new language, or whether …
Hot Topics AA: Russia Test-fires ‘Voevoda’ Intercontinental Missile 12/24/09 AF: Taliban issue video of captive US soldier 12/25/09 AF: Troops Secure Former Taliban Ghost Town in Afghanistan 12/25/09 YE: Yemen is growing front in Al Qaida battle 12/23/09 Below the fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime
One of the main arguments made by self-proclaimed “liberal humanitarian interventionists” in support of President Obama’s escalation of the Afghan War is that a return of the Taliban to power will condemn women to conditions approaching slavery. It is true that women’s rights in Afghanistan are almost medieval in character, but the central question of …
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To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East By SCOTT ATRAN December 13, 2009 Scott Atran, an anthropologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, John Jay College and the University of Michigan, is the author of the forthcoming ‘Listen to the Devil.’ Confidence is important, but we also have to recognize that …
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