The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The hampsters’ cheeks are bulging. Deputy Secretary of Defense Carter Speech to the American Enterprise Institute Washington, DC Thank you, Tom, for that introduction. It was almost exactly a year ago today that my former boss, Secretary Gates, spoke to you on the eve of his departure as Secretary of Defense. In looking back …
Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in Murders on Gaza Flotilla On the Second Anniversary of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in Murders of Nine Passengers By Ann Wright Two years ago I was a passenger on the first Gaza Freedom Flotilla which was sailing to break the …
In the late 1980s, under the leadership of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, the Pentagon began to privatise many of the military’s support services that had traditionally be done soldiers, sailors, and airmen — laundries, dining halls, security guards, cleaning latrines, some supply functions, etc. It was argued at the time that this would save …
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The Amazing Expanding Pentagon After a decade of ‘mission creep’–into diplomacy, agriculture, even energy policy–the Department of Defense has become America’s default tool for dealing with the world. Where does this leave the next president? By Thanassis Cambanis Boston Globe, May 27, 2012 When President Obama and Mitt Romney cross swords on defense policy, it …
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Lies and Consequences in Our Past 15 Wars By David Swanson “Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their peoples in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was their object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame …
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Why Even Failed Activism Succeeds I enjoy reading histories of past activism, including memoirs by long-time activists, such as Lawrence Wittner’s new book, Working for Peace and Justice. Almost every such account includes belated discoveries of the extent to which a government was been spying on and infiltrating activist groups. And almost every such account …
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Why I Heckled Tony Blair, War Criminal, at Colby College Graduation BY LISA SAVAGE If you woke on a beautiful spring Sunday in May on a pond in Maine, what would you do? A canoe ride on water as smooth as glass, and breakfast on the deck, perhaps — followed by disrupting international war criminal …
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