The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The following spaghetti diagram has been making the round of Versailles … it purports to summarize the strategy for winning the hearts and minds of the Afghans. But this is just the tip of the systems dynamics iceberg. This diagram is based on an attempt to model the non linear feedbacks implied …
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The Inevitable Collapse of McChrystal’s Afghan War Plan Bound to Fail By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Nisos Kos, Greece In the 11 May issue of CounterPunch, apparently based on White House and Pentagon sources, Gareth Porter, one of the most able journalists covering the Afghan debacle, reported that General McChrystal’s war plan is in the early …
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Posted on May 11, 2010 By William Pfaff The obituaries written of the European currency, the euro, have demonstrated divergences in national and cultural temperaments, the European funereal and laden with gloom about the future, but unyielding, and the American and British cheerfully and self-satisfiedly shoveling earth onto a casket of euros already six feet …
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EuroZone All In By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson, Baseline Scenario, 10 May 2010 The eurozone self-rescue plan announced last night has three main elements: At first pass this package might seem to be in with what we recommended But the European central banks have come in very early …
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The Baseline Scenario What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it Falling Back On Waterloo with 76 comments By Simon Johnson, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown The bank lobbyists have the champagne out – the Brown-Kaufman amendment, which would have capped the size and leverage …
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No One Cares By Chris Hedges 3 May 2010 We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands more Afghans and Pakistani civilians have been killed. Millions have been driven into squalid displacement and refugee camps. Thousands …
In my last blaster (here), I raised a question of whether the Israelis were trying to hijack the Green Lobby or whether they were ready for the rubber room. This was made in response to a report by Jonathan Cook that contended Israel was greenwashing war on terror. It turns out that I may have …
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