The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hazards of Revolution Patrick Cockburn London Review of Books, 9 January 2014 EXTRACTS: Why have oppositions in the Arab world and beyond failed so absolutely, and why have they repeated in power, or in pursuit of it, so many of the faults and crimes of the old regimes? The contrast between humanitarian principles expressed at …
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Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis World View: Everyone knows where al-Qa’ida gets its money, but while the violence is sectarian, the West does nothing Patrick Cockburn The Independent, Sunday 8 December 2013 Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni …
The United States bears a moral responsibility for the murderous state of affairs in Iraq, but contemporary American grand strategy has become a self-referencing mix of arrogance, narcissism, and exceptionalism; so it is not surprising that most Americans have dismissed Iraq their minds (as they are now dismissing Afghanistan). Below is an excellent reminder of the situation …
Americans Now Fear ISIS Sleeper Cells Are Living in the U.S., Overwhelmingly Support Military Action Glenn Greenwald The Intercept, 8 September 2014 EXTRACTS What kind of country goes around bombing people with no strategic purpose and with little motive other than to “flex muscles” and “show toughness”? This answer also seems clear: one that is …
Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on – it has, but into lawlessness and ruin Libya has plunged unnoticed into its worst political and economic crisis since the defeat of Gaddafi PATRICK COCKBURN Independent, TUESDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/special-report-we-all-thought-libya-had-moved-on–it-has-but-into-lawlessness-and-ruin-8797041.html Related articles
Each of the below references in cited in the new monograph series, Reinventing the US Army, for the US Army’s Strategic Studies Institute (SSI); links go to the official US Army site. This list will grow over the next 30 days. Links to Human Domain graphics are included.
The ISIS war has a new commander — and ISIS may be the least of his worries (Andrew Tilghman, Military Times, 21 August 2016) With the appointment of LtGen Stephen Townsend, USA, as the new commander for the war on ISIS, the US enters a new stage of deception and denial in the months preceding …
