The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I’ve been watching three areas the past few months: 01 Afghanistan and the non-existent exit strategy 02 NSA and the implosion of accountability in the US IC 03 Veteran suicides, active duty sexual assaults, and “the German disease” From where I sit, the senior leadership across the national security community and deep into every corner …
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I cannot express how strongly I agree with this. My only critique: He does not properly place this in the context of the transition into the Age of the Non-geographical corporate states. If our democracy were functioning properly the lunatic Right Congresspersons would not be elected. Click through to see the interview. It is worth …
I recently finished reading Roger Thompson’s Lessons Not Learned: The U.S. Navy’s Status Quo Culture (Naval Institute Press, 2007). I urge those who think we enjoy now and will enjoy in the future some sort of superiority on the seas to read this book. You will find tidbits that you contest, but you will also …
Last week, GAO defended itself, as it should have, at the Foreign Policy website against my criticisms of its latest F-35 report. This week I responded, also at Foreign Policy. In sum, GAO’s retort to my article makes me even more concerned about the state of affairs at GAO than I was before. Find my original article, …
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Call for Consultants to lead and review research on the Web’s use, utility and impact in 80 countries, contributing to the 2013 Web Index. http://globalintegrity.org/blog/web-index-hiring — Who We Are Looking For: Professionals from the fields of journalism, non-governmental organization, academia and the private sector with proven record in performing high-quality interviews and desk research, meeting …
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Marine F-35 Jump-Jet PR: Caveataxpayer Emptor By Winslow Wheeler March 27, 2013 The Marines issued a flashy press release last week: “first operational F-35B conducts initial Vertical Landing.” It was an amateurish, somewhat slimy piece of hype.In one important way, the press release contradicted itself, and in another it inadvertently revealed one of the many …
NATIONAL SECURITY Iraq Invasion Anniversary: Inside The Decider’s Head By Chuck Spinney, March 22, 2013 [note: a shorter version of this essay also appeared in Counterpunch here] In the summer of 2002, during the lead up to the Iraq War, a White House official expressed displeasure about with article written by journalist Ron Suskind in Esquire. He asserted people like Suskind were trapped “in …
