The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hot Topics AA: AFRICOM: Just another Western tool of de facto colonization 10/23/09 BW: Botswana elects first female Speaker 10/21/09 CD: DRC foils coup 10/21/09 DJ: Djibouti Rejects Alleged Destabilization Role in Somalia 10/21/09 GM: Gambia: State Guards Commander Demoted, Dismissed 10/22/09 GN: Expat mining execs flee Guinea on security concern 10/25/09 NG: MEND declares …
Hot Topics AA: Cyber warfare: Sound the alarm or move ahead in stride? 10/21/09 AA: Iranian strike inside Pakistan a distant option: analysts 10/22/09 AA: Saudi-Iranian hostility hits boiling point 10/20/09 AE: UAE Attorney General calls for Arab coordination to combat crimes 10/20/09 AF: Brown Goes Wobbly on Afghanistan 10/21/09 AF: Italian troops denied access …
Johann Hari: The three fallacies that have driven the war in Afghanistan Case for escalating the war is based on premises that turn to dust on inspection Johann Hari Independent Wednesday, 21 October 2009 Is Barack Obama about to drive his Presidency into a bloody ditch strewn with corpses? The President is expected any day …
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Hot Topics AA: Balkans Press Freedom Report 2009 10/20/09 AA: From Russia with disdain10/16/09 BY: Military enlistment office denies alternative service to believers 10/20/09 GE: The Tagliavini Report: A Road to Peace? 10/20/09 IL: Israeli defense chief rejects probe into Gaza war 10/20/09 KV: Kosovo Press Review – October 20 10/20/09 RS: Russsia’s Medvedev appeals …
The Afghanistan Problem The huge cultural misunderstandings between Western forces and the Afghan people make it unlikely any counterinsurgency mission in the countryside will succeed. By Gilles Dorronsoro In the countryside, Westerners are essentially perceived as corrupt and threatening to traditional Afghan or Muslim values. Contrary to our self-perception, the villagers see the foreigners as …
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What a great search phrase! Thank you. KEY POINT: Design is not just about physical structures, but about relationships as well as ideas. Will Durant has a great deal to say about this in Philosophy and the Social Problem. KEY POINT: Information is the means by which we harmonize understanding of the threats, sustainable consensus …
Phi Beta Iota: The public and Congress–and perhaps even the White House–are not fully informed on the this matter. In our view, “the Borg” is out of control and Iran could be a nuclear flash-point. See headlines. Zbigniew Brzezinski is the common threat, and is doing as much damage as he is because the “Bush …
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