The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
PDF (35): 2013-08-25 Intervention in Syria Phi Beta Iota: Below the line is a comprehensive index to posts on Syria by 4th Media, Berto Jongman, Chuck Spinney, David Swanson, DefDog, Franklin Lamp, Gordon Duff, Graphics, John Maguire, Kevin Barrett, Marcus Aurelius, Mini-Me, Neal Rauhauser, NIGHTWATCH, Owl, Paul Craig Roberts, Review, Stuart Littlewood, and Vladimir Putin.
Most readers of this list should be familiar with the name, if not the ideas, of the late American strategist Col John R. Boyd (USAF ret). Boyd was my mentor and closest friend, and I am deeply indebted to him for the knowledge he so generously bestowed on me. While no short essay can capture …
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US “death squad envoy” arrives in Egypt – and the slaughter begins My new Press TV article, published Monday, is looking prophetic – or as we Muslims prefer to say “precognitive.” When the US sends a “death squad ambassador” to Egypt, you can figure that the big slaughter is about to begin. As of today, …
The retired Marine colonel who cued me to this report opined that, “This is a hell of a lot closer to the mark than any Administration or DoS blathering.” I would be totally unsurprised to find him 100% spot-on. I invite your attention to the final para, highlighted. If that is true, the (in)actions of …
FYI … some of this attached NYT report seems to have been sourced in part on the “meeting at the Aspen Inst., reported by Max Blumenthal in Alternet (See “Shocking ‘Extermination’ Fantasies By the People Running America’s Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit”), which I distributed earlier this week. Note how the information in …
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For those who have not seen from one of the Army’s premier thinkers. Opposition rebuttal follows from a consistent defense naysayer.The issues can also be framed in a couple of other ways, from the conventional and special operations perspectives: CONVENTIONAL: “Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the …
A Streetcar Named Democracy Ten years ago Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously quipped “Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.” This was meant to prod Turks into thinking about their form of government, but the quote is applicable, albeit displeasingly so, for other situations in …
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