The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Thanks Jill for passing this over…..I will comment throughout. This is exactly where I got my feet wet and where the real power of the world resides and that is with the true owners of these instruments. All governments are loaned these and of course there is a history on that alone. benjamin July 2, …
Global Strategic Review 2013 opens tonight The 10th IISS Global Strategic Review conference opens tonight in Stockholm at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre and the Grand Hotel. ‘Assessing Global Risk’ is the theme of the 2013 GSR which runs from Friday 20 September to Sunday 22 September.
My friend Bill Polk, a well-known historian with extensive experience in the Middle East and Central Asia and author of many books on these areas, has written a backgrounder on how to make sense out of the Syrian chemical weapons issue. He has given me permission to distribute it. Herewith is his most interesting primer on …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Bill Polk Primer on Syria & Chemical Weapons”
The Bay of Pigs’ unfinished battle By George F. Will, Published: September 13 At 4 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1959, an hour when there were never commercial flights from Havana, David Atlee Phillips was lounging in a lawn chair there, sipping champagne after a New Year’s Eve party, when a commercial aircraft flew low over …
Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: George Will on Bay of Pigs — the Unfinished Battle”
Alexander Cooley 3.0 out of 5 stars Neither the Book Nor the Other Reviews are Serious, September 16, 2013 I am in Afghanistan, where I spend my time thinking about all external and internal factors bearing on 2014, and I was greatly looking forward to reading this book. It arrived, I read it, and I …
Continue reading “Review: Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia”
Who Benefits From America’s State of Perpetual War? Putin Lectures Obama by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, COUNTERPUNCH, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 That our Noble Peace Prize winning President and the Congress needed a rational lecture [also attached below] on the need for a little common sense in foreign policy, from a graduate of the KGB, says a …
The NSA’s War Against Encryption New revelations about National Security Agency abuses, which now include everything from industrial espionage to reports that the agency can access most data on our smartphones, seem to put everything we know about how business is done on the Internet in danger. Complete story below the line.
