The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Egypt: Exchanging a Dictator for a Torturer By James Ridgeway, Mother Jones, Thu Feb. 3, 2011 8:30 AM PST As for Suleiman, he looks to be a nasty piece of work. Egyptian Protests Grounded in Decades of Struggle; Portend Regional Transformation Max Ajl, Truthout, 03 February 2011 Egypt is throbbing with resistance. Cairo is cloven between the …
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Dear friends, There is need for bright news on the democracy front — and, luckily, there is some. (I’m also working to create some in the background, but I’ve got nothing to announce yet. Cross your fingers.) So I thought I’d share a bit of it the good stuff I’ve seen. The first article is …
(1) This **could** be DoD’s near-term future; (2) honestly have not heard anything bad about her; (3) my principal concern is that she has no personal military experience, which I personally think should be mandatory for any SECDEF. Chuck Spinney Sends: Truely nuts. The article is a puff piece about an incompetent fraud who happens …
OpenBTS Egypt simplifing the GSM network architecture Worth a look. Activists and concerned citizens in the USA should be ramping up ham radio as well as OpenBTS and OpenMoney. Facebook credits might be an intermediate solution. As we saw in relation to Wikileaks with Amazon, MasterCard, and PayPal, corporations cannot be trusted to honor their …
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The Clear-Hold-Build (C-H-B) strategy was first enunciated enthusiastically during the Bush Administration as the new counterinsurgency strategy to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people. Actually, this strategy was merely an unimaginative regurgitation of Marshall Lautey’s “tache d’huile” (oil spot) strategy used to quell native uprisings during France colonial wars at the end …
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Predictive Societal Indicators of Radicalism In collaboration with our academic partners Prof. Cingranelli at the Political Science Department, SUNY Binghamton University and Profs. Sam Bell and Amanda Murdie at the Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, we developed a Domestic Political Violence Model that forecasts political violence levels five years into the future. The …
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A project of Americans for Free and Fair Trade Dear Citizen: Barack Obama is pushing a NAFTA-Style Korea Free Trade agreement that would undermine America’s sovereignty, laws and economy. This deal would: Allow foreign corporations to drag the U.S. before U.N. and World Bank tribunals to enforce special trade privileges and to demand compensations from the …
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