The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Chuck Spinney Sends… America’s diplomatic recipe for winning the hearts and minds of “furriners” in the 21st Century: Mix – Blind unreasoning fear with the Domestic politics of privatizing embassy protection and the Domestic politics of huge construction contracts into neat grand-strategic soufflé, then bake it in the domestic political-economic oven of heated by the coals of the …
‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum Commentary by Caroline Baum Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) Heresy, thy name is Christina Romer. Last week, the chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers — a position that carried the title “chief economist” until Larry Summers took up residence in the White House — …
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Listen closely and you can hear the slow release of hot air. There’s a leak somewhere, and it appears to be coming from the giant red, white, and blue balloon set aloft some months ago by the counterinsurgency experts who convinced everyone in Washington that Afghanistan was one “graveyard of empires” that could be resurrected for the good of the world.
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Below is the Annotated Bibliography that completed ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig. It was designed to be a “handbook” of sorts on Reality. We like to paraphrase Trotsky, with a tip of the hat to Alvin Toffler who quoted him in War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century: “You may …
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The U.S. Intelligence Community and the U.S. policy-aquisition-operations communities do not think in these holistic terms. That is a strategic error of huge proportions.
Most policy makers are very poorly read and life a life, to quote Madeline Albright, as “gerbils on a wheel.” The ignorance, bias, and helplessness of good people in a bad system cannot be exaggerated. The U.S. Government specifically is not trained, equipped, or organized to “do” intelligence (decision-support) across all topics leveraging all information …
