The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Below is a brilliant synopsis of America’s defeat in Iraq. The author Patrick Seale, whom I had the pleasure of meeting last summer, is one of the leading authorities on the Middle East. Seale lays out the costs incurred and the unintended grand-strategic consequences of the US invasion of Iraq, and he reminds of us …
The 2012 election is now in play, and the Republican wing of the war party is gearing up to blame President Obama for America’s failed wars (who, while not entirely blameless, is hardly the architect of defeat) and the accompanying national humiliation. This email is about an opening shot that just appeared in the Weekly …
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Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch. DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …
Phi Beta Iota: Keep an open mind. This is deeply serious and directly relevant to understanding the convergence of the honest right, the honest left, and OccupyWallStreet. Don DeBar (aligned with Cynthia McKinney) sends: Zinoviev on Lenin and the (1905) Petrograd Soviet What Lenin meant to convey was that the Soviets were not the ordinary …
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“Rush and Crush.” Any questions? Police Violence Sparks General Strike Idea Within ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Occupy Oakland: As injured Iraq vet recovers, occupiers promise to ‘shut the city down’ Union Support for General Strike and Protests Nov. 2 Call for GENERAL STRIKE Nov. 2 – plus Occupy updates Occupy Oakland makes plans for citywide general …
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Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed 5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond 5 Stars – Superb Individual Effort, October 25, 2011 In its own way this book is every bit as good as such classics as The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) or The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters …
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The triumphalism in the US surrounding the liquidation of Qadaffi may be short lived. That is because most Americans do not appreciate how the legacy of anti-colonialism shapes the contemporary cultural DNA in North Africa or how influential that legacy has been in shaping the revolts of what is now called the Arab Spring. There …
