The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
10 questions for Jon Huntsman, Joe Lieberman
HARWOOD: What's wrong with American politics?
HUNTSMAN: I think professional politicians have taken over. They've professionalized what used to be a pursuit in public service…
LIEBERMAN: … it got more and more partisan, so my last two years were the most partisan, most rigid, and therefore the least productive. We didn't get anything done.
Why do secretaries need college degrees now?
Despite the fact that only one-third of Americans have them, college degrees have become the new high school diplomas, the baseline everyone in the workforce is assumed to meet.
But it's important to remember why employers can get away with this: They have power, and workers don't. And as their power grows, they can engage in ever-more frivolous and gratuitous demands for job applicants.
Continue reading “Mongoose: Screwed — No College No Job No Rights”
The American Republic is out of balance — collapsing from poor governance and the triumph of special interests over the public interest. There are two root causes — the corruption of the US political process that disenfranchises sixty percent of the public and blocks Independents and small parties from ballot access, and a dysfunctional intelligence architecture that lacks integrity — as Henry Kissinger has observed, intelligence is not necessary to the exercise of power (as now practiced by an elite-driven national security state) and is often useless.
No one since President Ike Eisenhower and Project Solarium has ever attempted an official honest, comprehensive, and coherent formulation of a grand strategy that balances ends, means, and ways for all government functions, not only in the national security arena, where the military is consuming 60% of the disposable budget in 2015, but across the domestic front as well.
“Since the end of the Cold War, impulse and ideology, generously seasoned with fantasy, have displaced principled strategy as the basis for U. S. policy. In this important and timely volume, Barry R. Posen illuminates the path back toward good sense and sobriety. Restraint is a splendid achievement.”āAndrew J. Bacevich, Boston University, author of Breach of Trust
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Reimagining the U.S. Military for Todayās Security Environment
Steve Metz
World Politics Review, 30 October 2015
The U.S. military is increasingly ill-suited for todayās complex, interconnected and transparent security environment. It was designed to fight major wars against the military forces of other nations, yet never does so. Despite the best intentions of its architects, the U.S. military is a āklugeāāa combination of sometimes compatible, sometimes mismatched parts cobbled together. It works, but not as effectively or efficiently as it should.
Series title: Of Smoke ‘n Mirrors (Lost in the Wilderness)
The CIA must not only shoulder much of the blame for the position in which the U.S. finds itself within the geopolitical order; with little sign the agency has learned any lessons from its nefarious past, it appears self-evident for all but its most ardent apologists, the āCompanyā can no longer be trustedāor for that matter, lay claimāto act in the national interest or in the interests of global stability, peace and security.
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