The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Below is a very important report describing how a string of US covert operations reaching back to the 1980s has created the bloody shambles in Iraq, Syria and the emergence of ISIS.*
The author, Gareth Porter, is one of the finest investigative reporters now operating in the United States. Most importantly, IMO, Porter ends by connecting these covert operations to the money flowing through the political-economy of Military-Industrial-
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize and lawsuit against the Nobel Foundation
Before this prize was announced an international group of distinguished activists, politicians and scholars handed in a lawsuit against the misappropriation of funds for purposes not in accordance with the will. Read it here. And here is a statement to what is appropriately called the betrayal – of the concept of peace, of the Will, of the vision and intention and of peace-makers all over the world who have, for all practical purposes, been deprived of their prize. Read full announcement with more links.
INTELLIGENCE LESSONS FROM THE 2009 FT HOOD SHOOTING
In 2010, then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair convened a panel to review the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting committed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan and the Christmas Day bombing attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest Flight 253. A redacted version of the resulting panel report was finally declassified and released this week.
EXTRACT:
“Inadequate information technology runs through both the Fort Hood and the NW Flight 253 narratives, particularly the inability of IT systems to help analysts locate relevant reporting in a sea of fragmentary data or to correct for seemingly minor human errors.”
$3 trillion corporate credit crunch looms as debtors face day of reckoning, says IMF
A poisonous “triad” of global risks is pushing the world to the brink of a new financial crisis, says stark IMF report
“Three percent of global output is at stake”.
A General Summing Up of the West’s March to Folly in Syria
EXTRACT
These early failures by the German and American leaderships led to ever more costly missteps and a loss of purpose as the respective leaders ‘dug in' to defend their mistakes. To make matters worse, some domestic interests — e.g., the Krupp in Germany and the MICC in the US — thrived on the carnage and had an economic interest in its continuation. And so, in very different circumstances, each conflict acquired a life of its own.
UPDATE 1: Putin’s “Endgame” in Syria
Complete essay and three links below the fold.
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Syria as Root for WWIII UPDATE Mike Whitney on Putin Winning”
See the Aquaponic Greenhouse Introduction Video – an overview of the Extreme Build workshop, and a walk through all the systems. https://vimeo.com/141252002. You can register for the workshop at http://bit.ly/1QNUs4c.
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In her new book, the nutrition expert lays bare the soda industry’s powerful and harmful tactics.
Nestle thoroughly expounds on the soda industry’s marketing and corporate social responsibility tactics. She also details the way it is increasing focus on the developing world, marketing to children, targeting people of color, recruiting public health leaders, making political campaign contributions, creating front groups, and strategically funding health organizations. No stone is left unturned.
Continue reading “JZ Liszkiewicz: Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda and Winning”
