The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Chuck Spinney’s flagging of the below piece supports the point we were making with the post on dynamic planning. For fifty years the USA has been throwing its weight around on the basis of partisan, ideological, and often illegimiate purposes, and it has been able to get a way with it because …
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This handbook is nothing more than a Chaplain’s Rice Bowl. It has nothing to do with what we were hoping for, Religious Engagement. For that, see the two references below by Capt Doug Johnston, USN (Ret), still the Top Gun on the topic. JCS needs to completely rewrite this publication, triple it in breadth and …
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Hot Topics AA: Concerns Rise Over African Airport Security 12/27/09 AA: New chief hits snags in Algeria and Egypt 12/23/09 AA: Nigerian in aircraft attack linked to London mosque 12/28/09 AA: Somali Insurgent Group Denounces UN Sanctions on Eritrea 12/25/09 AO: Angola: Over 2000 explosive devices deactivated 12/23/09 GN: Guinea Marks First Anniversary of Military …
One of the main arguments made by self-proclaimed “liberal humanitarian interventionists” in support of President Obama’s escalation of the Afghan War is that a return of the Taliban to power will condemn women to conditions approaching slavery. It is true that women’s rights in Afghanistan are almost medieval in character, but the central question of …
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To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East By SCOTT ATRAN December 13, 2009 Scott Atran, an anthropologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, John Jay College and the University of Michigan, is the author of the forthcoming ‘Listen to the Devil.’ Confidence is important, but we also have to recognize that …
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Hot Topics AA: Ethiopians Dominate Flood Of Africans to Yemen 12/18/09 AA: Guineans flee to Senegal 12/18/09 AA: Radical Islam meets a buffer in West Africa 12/21/09 AO: Crude rises ahead of OPEC meeting 12/21/09 ER: The Case of Eritrea’s Missing Soccer Team 12/16/09 KE: Obama ignores brutality and corruption in Kenya 12/17/09 NG: Nigeria: …
Hot Topics AA: Lockheed Martin wins huge NZ Defence deal 12/15/09 AA: US general says N. Korean attack would hurt Seoul 12/19/09 AU: Joining China and Iran, Australia to Filter Internet 12/15/09 BD: Bangladesh police forces criticised 12/15/09 CN: China Says Asylum – Seeking Uighurs Suspected Criminals 12/15/09 CN: Leading China dissident to be tried …
