The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
My latest screed on US pol-mil policy, a shorter version of this appeared on 27 Feb in the Time Battleland Blog here. Chuck Spinney Africa and AFRICOM:Neo-Imperialism and the Arrogance of Ignorance by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch, WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 1-3, 2013 Most Americans do not realize the extent to which the U.S. is becoming involved …
How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons) Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Syria London Review of Books, Vol. 35 No. 4 · 21 February 2013 EXTRACT: ‘We reached a point in the fighting, in spring 2012, when we needed proper support. We needed heavy machine guns, real weapons. Money was never an issue: how …
For those who think the Iraqi surge was a stunning success, a small dose of reality from one of the most knowledgeable observers of Iraq The Sunni Revolt Is Growing Saddam and the US Failed Iraq by PATRICK COCKBURN Counterpunch, FEBRUARY 11, 2013 Baghdad. The civil war in Syria is destabilising Iraq as it changes …
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Below is a two-part series of reports by Nicolas Pelham on the increasingly precarious situation in Jordan. The proximate causes of Jordan’s growing potential for instability and revolution derive from the spillover effects of the Syrian Civil War. But these effects are amplifying deeper demographic tensions that were already causing serious problems. As Pelham show, …
Algeria-US: Update. A senior Algerian official said that one of the terrorists captured at the In Amenas gas plant said under interrogation that some of the dead Egyptian terrorists also participated in the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi last year. Three terrorists are in custody. The official said the terrorists staged in southern …
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Pakistan: Pakistan is coping with three major internal political crises and one foreign crisis. Any one of these could prevent the first ever transfer of power in March 2013 between successive constitutional, civilian, elected governments in the history of Pakistan.
AUDIO Published on Jan 12, 2013 A talk between John Xenakis and Warren Pollock recorded in August of 2012. This is being re-posted because some of the points we talked about five months ago are first gaining traction in the press, and then they are getting spun incorrectly. Sunni Shi-ite War in Middle East? Turkey …
