The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
For America, Denial Is a River in Iraq by JP Sottile, Antiwar.com, January 18, 2014 Americans don’t know much about geography. In 2006, three years into the bloody War on Iraq, 63% of Americans aged 18-24 couldn’t find the “target-rich” nation on a map. To be fair, only half could find New York State on …
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BOOK: America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this …
BOOK: Religious Armed Conflict and Discrimination in the Middle East and North Africa: An Introduction CYBER: Hook Analyser v3.0 malware analysis utility CYBER: Space – the Final Frontier (for War) CYBER: State of Russian monitoring & surveillance DEA: DEA & DOJ Held Over 50 Secret Meetings with Cartels, in Violation of Agreements with Mexico, and …
Half a Billion Clicks Can’t Be Wrong What big data tells us about next year’s crisis zones. EXTRACTS: ….my 2011 “Culturomics 2.0” study demonstrated the unique insights gleaned from looking at how the media covers an event, rather than just what it covers. The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) project is the …
Africa: US Ramps Up Troops Book of Experimental Maps Climate Change 2013/2014 Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis Computer Detection and Emergency Response Firms Merge Conflict Prevention Priorities for 2014 Cyber Threats 2014: Darknets, Windows XP, Adobe Passwords, Bitcoin and More Deception Detection for Interviewers E-Harmony for Global Peace Fukushima: Dead sea creatures cover …
Attached is a very different analysis of emerging politics in the Middle East. I do not know what to make of it. Some of it rings true to me, like the pressures on Turkey to shift gears … but taken together, I just don’t know. I welcome any comments, pro or con, about it. I …
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Attached below are two very important reports by two of the most astute observers of conflicts in the Middle East. The first is a precisely-focused report by Rami Khouri, editor at large of Lebanon’s Daily Star. Khouri analyzes how the recent assassination of Mohamad Chatah needs to be interpreted in the context of complexities of …
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