The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Herewith is a stunning series of reports by Gareth Porter, one of the very best investigative journalists in America. Not only does he show how King David created the myth of his success and became naked in the process, he puts the failures of the surges in Iraq and Afghanistan into a definitive perspective. But …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: The Patraeus Myth & the Pentagon’s Big Lie”
Thomas Leo Briggs is a retired CIA operations officer with 3 years military experience in US Army military police, 3 years as a Special Agent in the Drug Enforcement Administration and 26 years in the CIA. He tried to make use of computer capabilities to aid and assist humint operations in a variety of ways …
More on US war criminals as convicted by a tribunal in Malaysia. Crime Watch: American Presidents and their Advisors are War Criminals Especially this part: “Most Americans, their minds focused at the moment on the tragic slaughter of 20 young children aged 5-10, along with five teachers and a school principal in Connecticut by a …
Making Intelligence Relevant for the Missions of the 21st Century by James Howcroft Small Wars Journal | December 19, 2012 The international challenges which threaten the security of the United States and our partners in the 21st century are not primarily posed by conventional military forces. Despite the “pivot” toward a conventional peer competitor in …
Libya: Libya’s ruling national congress ordered the temporary closure of its borders with four of its neighbors on 16 December and declared its desert south a closed military zone. The national assembly ordered that land borders with Chad, Niger, Sudan and Algeria be temporarily closed pending new regulations. It also said the provinces of Ghadames, …
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Below is an excellent sitrep on the Syrian civil war. The author, Patrick Cockburn, is one of the very best observers of the Middle East. Chuck Spinney DECEMBER 17, 2012 What is Really Happening in Syria Descent Into Holy War by PATRICK COCKBURN, Counterpunch EXTRACT: Syria today resembles Iraq nine years ago in another disturbing …
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Harvey Molotch 4.0 out of 5 stars Theatrically Naive in Its Own Way But Recommended, December 15, 2012 I’m the former spy and honorary hacker who sounded the alarm on cyber-security in 1994 and who questioned every aspect of the Department of Homeland Security, pointing out that the joint fusion centers would be a waste …
