The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Return of the Jedi BY MAJ. GEN. ROBERT H. SCALES (RET.) It’s that time again. About once a decade, the military services attempt to reform how they educate officers. This time, the catalyst is a series of Senate and House hearings on how well the services educate officers. The Defense Science Board will begin a …
CIA Opens Center for Climate Change. The Central Intelligence Agency announced plans to launch a center on climate change to examine the potential security risks of environmental issues. The CIA said it was working on its new Center on Climate Change and National Security to examine the national security impact of environmental issues such as …
Phi Beta Iota: Government is broken. Ron Paul has that exactly right. It is broken for two reasons: first because over time those spending the money have grown distant from those providing the money, the individual taxpayers, AND from reality. The second reason it is broken is because knowledge itself has become fragmented, and “systems …
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10 Steps To Victory In Afghanistan Reform or Go Home (David Kilcullen) End Suicide Attacks (Robert Pape) If You Can’t Beat Them, Let Them Join (Linda Robinson) Pump Up the Police (Anthony Cordesman) Kick Out Corruption (Nader Nadery) Learn to Tax From the Taliban (Gretchen Peters) Polls Have the Power (Merrill McPeak) Take a Risk …
Afghanistan Journal (PoliticsDaily.com) October 1, 2009 Obama’s War: Take Your Time By David Wood One brigade commander, Col. Michael Howard, is on his fourth tour in Afghanistan and understands it like few others. Still, there are pieces of this war that stop him cold. One of them is government corruption. “It’s a cancer without a …
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For the first time we are posting a link twice, in both Professional Sites (as a publisher) and in Righteous Sites (as a contributor). For some time now we have been struck by the consistent value and inherent righteousness of much of what this organization does. They describe themselves as Deep Green for 25 Years, …
Phi Beta Iota: First, tip of the hat to the New York Times for open persistent URLs. Bravo! We strongly recommend a reading of the entire piece at the NYT website. Shame on the USA for not living up to the Founding Father’s aspirations for a wise government and an engaged public. No one …
