The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Patrick Cockburn has written a very important essay on Syria in the London Review of Books (attached below). The essay is aptly titled but has only a few oblique, albeit important, references to Sykes – Picot Agreement, a document some readers may not familiar with. Let’s begin with a little background. The Sykes-Picot agreement (it …
Post-Assad Syria: Turkey’s Perspective I just finished reading the Bipartisan Policy Center‘s paper U.S. – Turkish Cooperation Towards A Post Assad Syria. I knew I had been missing nuance but I did not realize how much complexity there was in the relationship between the two countries. First, Syria has been spilling refugees all over the region. …
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Well worth reading between the lines. Socom Officials Work on Plan for Global Network By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., June 3, 2013 – About 100 people are hard at work at the U.S. Special Operations Command headquarters here on a new plan that will operationalize the way the …
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The Guardian UK reports that the US and other militaries are preparing for major domestic disorder stimulated by climate, energy, and economic crises. NSA surveillance is part of that. This shoring up of power-over from the top calls for our rapid development of power-with from below. Ramping up the two big Powers The report below …
Electronic Frontier Foundation Defending your rights in the digital world June 13, 2013 | By Katitza Rodriguez Spies Without Borders I Using Domestic Networks to Spy on the World This is the first article of our Spy Without Borders series. This article has been co-authored by Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer at CIPPIC and Katitza Rodriguez, EFF International Rights Director. The Spy …
Syria: Reports from Aleppo indicate fighting continues and the opposition has lost ground in outlying areas. The reports also indicate the main government offensive push has not yet begun. North Korea-Syria: According to South Korean press, on 14 June, a “well-informed diplomatic source” said that “North Korea has dispatched chemical weapon technicians to Syria since …
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The Geeks Who Leak The President calls them a threat to national security. the Internet calls them heroes. A new wave of hacktivists is changing the way we handle secrets. By Michael Scherer Time, June 24, 2013, Pg. 22 The 21st century mole demands no payments for his secrets. He sees himself instead as an …
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