The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
VA Pushing Pills and Getting Vets Hooked on Opiates The VA is prescribing 270 percent more opiates to veterans than it was 12 years ago, sometimes pushing the drugs to known addicts who later overdose, writes Aaron Glantz. This story aired on Reveal, a new public radio show from The Center for Investigative Reporting and …
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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 …
Here is a fascinating cosmological report. Something that renders human activities as minor events. The Galaxy’s Core Is About to Explode JEFF WISE – Popular Mechanics The next time you see some pompous businessperson or political whore, expounding on how we have to stop food assistance, or stop “coddling” poor people, remember this story. This …
John McAfee vows to make Internet ‘impossible to hack’ By Dan Nakaso dnakaso@mercurynews.com >Posted: 09/24/2013 05:38:37 PM PDT | Updated: a day ago SAN JOSE — Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, who buried himself in the sand to hide from police in Belize, faked a heart attack in a Guatemalan detention center and …
Not a word of this in the American corporate press, but I take this as further evidence of our declining status in Latin America as a result of the U.S.’s bullying behavior. The craziness and paranoia ginned up in this country after 911 looks, to people outside of it, like a kind of national madness. …
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Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine Monday, 16 September 2013 Joseph Stiglitz couldn’t believe his ears. Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America’s economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury …
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Myth 1 : America has to act. Myth 2 : America’s actions are benevolent. Myth 3 : America can win wars. The 20th century myths driving US intervention The logic behind a possible US strike in Syria is anachronistic, writes author. Eric Garland Al Jazeera, 15 September 2013 In the past few weeks, I have …
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