The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota Warning Notice: Do NOT waste ink on the IC report. We’ve ordered up what they should have done in the first place, a printer-friendly low-footprint version that prints reliably and should have it delivered to Secrecy News by the end of the week. Not only does this offering waste a lot of ink, …
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Video: Joseph Stiglitz talks about offshore tax evasion (3:18 point of the video Stiglitz mentions an August 2001 veto by the Bush administration on an OECD bank secrecy reduction convention). Prof. Stiglitz is a Nobel Laureate, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and former head of the Council of Economic Advisors to President Clinton. …
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Originally published March 27, 2010 By Erik Lacitis Seattle Times staff reporter VANCOUVER, Wash. — After nearly five decades, guys like James Noce finally get to tell their stories about Area 51. Yes, that Area 51. The one that gets brought up when people talk about secret Air Force projects, crashed UFOs, alien bodies and, …
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1 minute 58 second video of not yet president Obama exaggerating on the 2009 campaign trail about government secrecy. How much has this been lived up to? Readthebill.org has on their site a proposal for a 72 hour time period to examine bills that has not passed. List of virtual democracy weblinks
Phi Beta Iota: David Pozen, JD Yale 2007, has provided advance access to the complete draft on his paper forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, and we are both appreciative of this offering, and impressed–deeply impressed–by this seminal work. At a time when the U.S. “security clearance” system is so totally hosed up (and 70,000 …
We pay careful attention to the search terms used by those who visit us, and have noticed a very healthy focus on strategy and on secrecy. The two are incompatible. Strategy, by its inherent nature, must be holistic, transparent, and sustainable. It demands broad collaboration and the broadest possible information-sharing and sense-making. Secrecy, by its …
Blog: Somebodies and Nobodies: Dignity for All September 25, 2009, Addiction Why Do We Want To Be Famous? Fame promises an escape from ghettos, both real and imagined. Like liberty, we’re often unaware of dignity until we lose it. A hint of disrespect may be a test of our resistance to subservience, or a reminder …
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