The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Path to War with Iran is an analysis by Robert Merry, editor of The National Interest and a historian. (I reformatted it to highlight its main points but did not change any words or the order of his words.) Merry analogizes the current situation with that facing FDR in the late 1930s, and he …
The Summer 2012 issue of Common Defense Quarterly is running my article, “MQ-9 Reaper: Not the ‘Revolution in Warfare’ You’ve Been Told.” To sum it up, I conclude “The proclamation of drones, such as Reaper, to be the future of warfare, a revolutionary transformation, is an empty, data free proclamation. The MQ-9 neither saves money nor …
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The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 4 Philosophical Concepts Extract III Education The core value of universal education must inform the most intrinsic function and principle of a democratic society, in order that self-directed reason is inculcated into the populace. . . . . . . . . . To this end, Durant [in Philosophy …
Anti-Malaria Drug as Incapacitating Agent Cyber-Crime in US Much Bigger than Al Qaeda EU Down in 3 Months Per George Soros Foreign Fighters Trickle Into Syria GAO on Incoming Air Cargo Security Radioactive Nightmare (Michael Collins)
Attached is a really first rate assessment of the real benefits and costs of the American infatuation with drone warfare. The writer, Patrick Cockburn, is one of the very best reporters now covering the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. Chuck Spinney Cap Ferat, France America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda World View: …
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The concepts of “design” and “association” in this article, related so fundamentally to the creation and contextualization of important information, seems closely related to the idea of open intelligence and the larger meme of open everything. So, fyi. The Design Economy: How to Meet the Challenges of the Next Economic Era Joe Costello, author of …
Robert David Steele Brave, provocative and valuable June 6, 2012 By Ralph H. Peters Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase Read this compact book in an evening–and think about it for a year. Robert Steele long as been one of our most interesting and challenging thinkers (although his writing is clear–a reflection of clear thought), and this book …
