The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
National Intelligence and National Defense By Robert David Steele Vivas Published 06/17/11 Right up front, here is the value proposition: a revolution in national security affairs can immediately deliver three things: 1. Permit the rapid (four years) reduction of the secret intelligence community budget from $80 billion to under $20 billion and permit the rapid …
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The Narrative Battle & Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century By John Marke Warfare in the 21st century is about the battle for the mind – it is about ideas and perceptions. Understanding how people make sense of what’s happening around them, i.e., socially constructed reality is a key element of this dynamic. Military strategists, at …
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What Gates Didn’t Do Robert Gates has been called the best secretary of defense in recent memory. On the other hand, he has a reputation with some as a slick career bureaucrat with a knack for avoiding blame but pocketing credit. Both are true. “Best in recent memory?” It would have been hard for Gates …
How Not to Withdraw from Iraq Even as we withdraw troops, the enormity of the US embassy compound in Baghdad sends the wrong message. — By Peter Van Buren Mother Jones, 11 June 2011 EXTRACT: Eight disastrous years after we invaded, it is sad but altogether true that Iraq does not matter much in the …
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Under the cover of democracy US and its allies assist will be using neoliberal economic policies to make sure new Arab governments stay in line. Joseph Massad Al Jazerra, 08 Jun 2011 EXTRACT: But as US action around the world aimed at eliminating the recently won right to self-determination for the peoples of Asia and …
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There are a number of points that don’t ring true…….but before we look at these, one must identify who the “Taliban” Gates is talking about are….there is one Afghan Taliban (Mullah Omar), there is the Haqqani Network, there is the HIG (Hekmatyar), and now the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)is active in Northern Afghanistan. This …
McKinney Leads DIGNITY Delegation of Independent Journalists to Libya on Fact-Finding Mission 1 June 2011 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – Today, independent journalists from across the United States departed on a truth-telling, fact-finding mission to Libya. This coincides with what was supposed to have been a debate in Congress on U.S. involvement in the war against …
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