The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Who Benefits From America’s State of Perpetual War? Putin Lectures Obama by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, COUNTERPUNCH, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 That our Noble Peace Prize winning President and the Congress needed a rational lecture [also attached below] on the need for a little common sense in foreign policy, from a graduate of the KGB, says a …
This is today’s Theocratic Rightist story; it is so bizarre that The Daily Show would find it too far out. A little background before you read this piece: Alex Jones has two million daily listeners, and over 300 million people have visited his YouTube channel. His program is ranked as one of the top 100 …
Collapse of American Influence Recalls Dis-Integration of Soviet Union, Fall of France By CONRAD BLACK | September 7, 2013 Not since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and prior to that the fall of France in 1940, has there been so swift an erosion of the world influence of a Great Power as …
PART II: Enabling Suffering through Doublespeak and Doublethink Indifference to poverty and retributive justice as case studies Cultivating indifference to suffering through doublespeak Enabling suffering through religious doublespeak Enabling suffering through legal doublespeak Enabling suffering through political doublespeak: Iraq vs. Syria Exploiting suffering as a means of moral and emotional blackmail Transcendent justification for indifference …
Our Newfound Fear of Risk We’re afraid of risk. It’s a normal part of life, but we’re increasingly unwilling to accept it at any level. So we turn to technology to protect us. The problem is that technological security measures aren’t free. They cost money, of course, but they cost other things as well. They …
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“Why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the rebels in Syria? Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won’t let them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria? Of course. Qatar wants to install a puppet regime in …
American Generals Stand between War and Peace The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Martin Dempsey, backed by his Joint Staff generals and admirals, stood between a hasty and knee-jerk President Obama who was intent on launching a military attack on Syria and a tenuous peace in the Middle …
