The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
On 16 January 2010, Herbert Meyer, who served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, wrote the following: “No one among us is perfect, or even close to perfect. In the real world, intelligence failures will happen from time to time …
If you think the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan is protecting the Afghan people, and especially the rights of women, think again. Chuck Afghanistan’s soft-spoken rebel The voice from the back of the room Malalai Joya is only 32, but she has been an exile, a refugee, a teacher of girls in the Taliban’s Afghanistan, and …
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Phi Beta Iota: this specific book is rocketing around Reuniting America, Transpartisan (Left) and Post-Partisan (Right) circles, the 50 million or so Americans–possibly more now–that consider themselves Cultural Creatives. This book will be reviewed here in a week or two. Below are related books with links to their review page and from there to their …
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Phi Beta Iota: Now imagine a global public fully aware of the value of Twitter photos with geospatial attributes, and a multinational decision support team able to receive and plot all such contributions…. As long as “research” is controlled by secret and ultra-far out organizations like DARPA and IARPA this stuff is not going to …
NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. YEMEN is addressed in CENTCOM Week in Review Hot Topics AA: Violence in Angola Puts South Africa on the Defensive 01/11/10 AA: Drug Titans and Coups 01/11/10 AA: Somalis fleeing to Yemen prompt new worries in fight …
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An Utterly Superb Intellectual Contribution–a Major New Reference January 10, 2010 David Cortright This book is a gift to humanity, a foundational reference of such extraorindary value that I earnestly believe it should be required reading for every single liberal arts program in the world, and used as a core book in all graduate international …
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Fast Read, Ground Truth, Moral Truth, Priceless Insights January 5, 2010 Michael Hogan I received this book as a gift from the author after I reviewed Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, and I am very glad to have accepted his offer. At 218 pages double-spaced it is …
