Mongoose: Vatican Has Paid Over $4 Billion in Pedophilia Pedopredation Hush Money

The Vatican Has Paid Nearly $4 Billion To Settle For Children Harmed By Sexual Abuse “According to Jack and Diane Ruhl of the National Catholic Reporter, who decided to research this particular topic, since 1950, the Vatican has spent a disgusting $3,994,797,060.10. That’s nearly $4 billion to keep things hush hush. That number may even be a bit conservative, …

Gareth Porter: Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran Nuclear: Big Fat Liar III

The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim in his theatrical 20-minute presentation of an Israeli physical seizure of Iran’s “atomic archive” in Tehran would certainly have been the “great intelligence achievement” he boasted if it had actually happened. But the claim does not hold up under careful …

Steven Aftergood: JCS on Strategy — Directing All the Instruments of National Power

STRATEGY: DIRECTING THE INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER The tools that can be used to assert national power and influence have often been summarized by the acronym DIME — Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic. But “US policy makers and strategists have long understood that there are many more instruments involved in national security policy development and …