The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sorry for the failure to get to the core pieces. Part of the challenge is that “integrity” is a recurring theme — this web site, by definition, is replete with integrity in every posting, every link, every intent. This search overview does not include ethics, legitimacy, or truth, three other core terms and concepts that …
Afghanistan-NATO: The withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan could come sooner than expected, according to NATO Secretary General Rasmussen. He conceded that the recent Taliban strategy of ‘green on blue’ killings had been successful in sapping NATO morale. In an interview with The Guardian Rasmussen acknowledged he felt pressure for a faster withdrawal from Afghanistan …
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The New World Frank Jacobs and Parag Khanna The New York Times Sunday Review, September 22, 2012 IT has been just over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the last great additions to the world’s list of independent nations. As Russia’s satellite republics staggered onto the global stage, one could be …
QE For the People: What Else Could We Buy With $29 Trillion? (September 24, 2012) Central banks could be helping communities instead of enriching predatory, parasitic “too big to fail” banks and financial feudalism. In a system that depends on lies and the credulity of the citizenry, the greatest lie is that the Federal …
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Perhaps the most enduring feature of US foreign policy is a self-righteous sense of divine mission blinds the Orientations of its self-referencing practitioners to the real world consequences of their Decisions, and Actions. Their missionary zeal makes their outlooks impervious to the corrective effects negative feedback from the real world. Put simply, with a few …
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Feast of Fools: How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy Huffington Post, 20 August 2012 Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com [A longer version of this essay appears in “Politics,” the Fall 2012 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly; this slightly shortened version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.] All power corrupts …
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele21 Sample entries are carried here — for all others see the index pages. This web site is unique as a historical record of all that was published going back to 1988 (by over 800 authorities), all of which has been ignored by the US Government particularly, other governments generally, because public intelligence …
