The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Brazil Wins WTO Approval to Sanction U.S. Over Cotton (Update2) Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Brazil won the World Trade Organization’s approval to start retaliating against the U.S. because of subsidies paid to American cotton farmers. The WTO gave Brazil permission in August to impose $294.7 million in sanctions against U.S. goods — the second-highest amount …
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o the left is the map we created when it was clear the USA was going to invade Iraq and blow what should have been the surgical demise of Osama Bin Laden. This slide was created for and used in the opening briefing to the SES course on national security at the Western Management Development …
Tom Friedman had an especially fatuous column in Sunday’s New York Times, which is saying something given his well-established capacity for smug self-assurance. According to Friedman, the big challenge we face in the Arab and Islamic world is “the Narrative” — his patronizing term for Muslim views about America’s supposedly negative role in the region. …
Quotes don’t seem to add anything to the Word Press search engine, but even without quotes this does not come up. Separating QDR from four forces does produce partial results. Below is the core orignal graphic. Today, with the deflation of the dollar by 50% in the past ten years, these numbers would be doubled, …
A Strategic Analytic Model is the non-negotiable first step in creating Strategic Intelligence, and cascades downto also enable Operational, Tactical, and Technical Intelligence. The most relevant strategic analytic model to our purposes is the one inspired by the United Nations High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change. Their report, A More Secure World–Our Shared …
NIGHTWATCH Special Report: October in Afghanistan 27 November 2009 Taliban and other anti-government fighters have begun to go to winter quarters, in Pakistan or in Afghanistan. The fighting will drop somewhat during the winter, but in the core provinces of the Pashtun south, weather is not a factor. Based on Taliban public statements, their attacks …
Mother of All Conspiracy Theories: “Cultural Cleansing in Iraq” The Iraq Crisis List has publicized a new book entitled, Cultural Cleansing in Iraq Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered. According to Iraq Crisis, Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that …
