The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Wayne Madsen via 4th Media In an interview with the reactionary right-wing Fox News network, former Central Intelligence Agency director James Woolsey said U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden «should be prosecuted for treason. If convicted by a jury of his peers, he should be hanged by his neck until he is dead». Woolsey, …
Gareth Porter and Robert Parry, two of our finest investigating reporter/historians deserve kudos for placing the self-serving nature of the Gates’ memoir in a proper perspective. Readers should bear in mind that the soap-opera-like gaming of Obama into acquiescing to the fatally flawed plan for a surge in Afghanistan surge in 2009, described accurately by …
Today’s fixation in Washington is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ so called new revelation, breathlessly reported by the Washington Post (Robert Woodward), the New York Times (Thom Shanker) and others, that Barak Obama was not fully committed to George Bush’s (and Robert Gates’) war in Afghanistan, especially the troop surge there which Obama allowed …
God bless Secretary Gates! He is a man of honor, integrity and competence as well as a good judge of character. During one of the critical periods, Iraq surge if memory serves, he had heard about what my offices does and came down to meet us personally and take pictures with us. For the duration …
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Noam Chomsky 5.0 out of 5 stars Explosive Opening, Less Satisfying Conclusion, January 5, 2014 The book explodes on page one: no bankers arrested — none, zip, nada, rein — 7,762 Occupiers arrested from the first 80 in NYC on 24 September 2001 to the two arrested in SF on 15 June 2013. Talk about …
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The following is the complete text of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s inaugural address, as prepared for delivery. Thank you, President Clinton, for your kind words. It was an honor to serve in your administration, and we’re all honored by your presence. I have to note that, over 20 years ago, when a conservative philosophy seemed …
Quadrennial Intelligence Community Review? The Department of Defense began producing the Quadrennial Defense Review in 1997 in response to requests from Congress triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Four of them have been released and the fifth will begin to appear in February or March of 2014. …
