The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Kofi Annan: Africa plundered by secret mining deals Tax avoidance, secret mining deals and financial transfers are depriving Africa of the benefits of its resources boom, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan has said. BBC 10 May 2013 Firms that shift profits to lower tax jurisdictions cost Africa $38bn (£25bn) a year, says a report produced by …
Russia’s New Tip of the Spear What’s got the Kremlin so worried that it created a Special Operations Command? Dmitri Trenin Foreign Policy, 8 May 2013 Addressing the Russian National Security Council meeting on May 8, President Vladimir Putin said that the forthcoming departure of U.S. and coalition forces from Afghanistan confronts Russia with a …
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Three propositions: (1) Disengage from Afghanistan (2) Close Guantanamo (3) Discipline Drones “How to End the Forever War?” Harold Hongju Koh Oxford Union, Oxford, UK May 7, 2013 EXTRACT: My former professor and former Legal Adviser Abram Chayes once said, after he had sued the United States government from the academy, “I have always thought …
Published on Jan 2, 2012 SOURCES AND TRANSCRIPT: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=3588 As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington’s interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension. Far from being a dispassionate observer of these developments, …
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From the Columbia Journalism School. Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present Conclusion: More than any one strategy or capability, the core virtue in this environment is a commitment to adapting as the old certainties break and adopting the new capabilities we can still only partially understand, and to remember that the only reason any …
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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Israel’s Main Infrastructure Control System (SCADA) Submitted by siavash on Wed, 05/08/2013 – 16:53 Cyberwarzone The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) launched a successful cyberattack on the main infrastructure system of Haifa, one of the most important ports in Israel, disrupting the operation of the servers in charge of urban management systems …
He calls it the “Cancer of American Journalism” Robert Fisk: We Might As Well Name Our Newspapers ‘Officials Say’ May 7, 2013 Watch the full 20-minute interview with Robert Fisk on Democracy Now! at http://owl.li/kN9jD. Longtime Middle East correspondent of the British newspaper The Independent, Robert Fisk, tells Democracy Now! that journalists covering Syria and …
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