The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Received via email: I noticed some serious discrepancies between the NDAA as written and the understanding at large surrounding it, as well as widespread gross misunderstandings of events that have transpired in relation to it, such as the Feinstein amendment, widely assumed to reign in its power. Moreover, by using obfuscatory language in the official …
FREE COPY OF BOOK TO ALL WHO ATTEND (MUST RSVP) In the expanding political debate between the defenders of the Pentagon budget and the deficit hawks, do you feel buried in a mountain of misinformation? Do you puzzle over why years of increasing defense dollars buy steadily shrinking and aging forces? Does our technology give …
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The Clear-Hold-Build (C-H-B) strategy was first enunciated enthusiastically during the Bush Administration as the new counterinsurgency strategy to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people. Actually, this strategy was merely an unimaginative regurgitation of Marshall Lautey’s “tache d’huile” (oil spot) strategy used to quell native uprisings during France colonial wars at the end …
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Phi Beta Iota: Notes summarizing the 59 minute video are below the line. ….Watch this!!!!! My good friend Pierre Sprey interviews Bill Hartung on Book TV about Hartung’s new book, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. The book is a history of the largest military contractor in U.S. history, …
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Pentagon’s Favorite Jet Delayed as Costs Rise Yet Again By Spencer Ackerman November 1, 2010 | 5:50 pm | Categories: Paper Pushers, Beltway Bandits, Politicians Add another several billion dollars and years in delays to the military’s most important new jet. Nearly a year after Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired the head of the F-35 …
UN Summit Aims to Reduce Poverty, Hunger and Disease U.N. members resolved a decade ago to reduce extreme poverty, ensure every child finishes primary school and stop the HIV/AIDS pandemic. They also vowed to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and reduce the number of people worldwide who do not have access to clean water …
Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency Financial Times Washington Bureau Chief Edward Luce has written a granularly informed insider account about those who hold the keys to the inner most sanctum of Obama Land — Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod. See also: Journal: Wall Street Dumps Democrats Journal: From Rhetoric to …
