The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
As Esam Al-Amin explained here, Mohamad Morsi made some colossal blunders during his one year rule of Egypt, as its democratically elected president. He was elected in what most observers regard as a reasonably fair election. But the exclusive report by Al Jazeera (also attached below) reveals that the United States — which claims to support democracy …
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The corporate media’s long relationship with the spook world may help explain why it doesn’t like Snowden Sam Smith, Undernews, 2013-07-07 11:15 AM This obituary is of note because it is a rare example of that long-time media bedfellow of spooks, the Washington Post, telling a piece of the story of the long relationship between …
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From the Bubble Economy to Debt Deflation and Privatization Michael Hudson, Counterpunch, 2013-07-05 The Federal Reserve’s QE3 has flooded the stock and bond markets with low-interest liquidity that makes it profitable for speculators to borrow cheap and make arbitrage gains buying stocks and bonds yielding higher dividends or interest. In principle, one could borrow at …
Linked below are two important essays on the Egyptian coup. In the first, Esam Al-Amin, one of the most astute observers of the Arab Spring, provides a thorough background on the Egyptian politics, the Muslim Brotherhood’s litany of mistakes, and the emerging role of Islamic parties in the evolving thrust toward democracy in the Arab …
The attached essay describes the natural gas bonanza in the Eastern Mediterranean is packed with facts, and it will give you a headache reading it, but it is very important and I recommend it to your attention. Chuck Spinney Bastia, Corsica Is the US Playing With Gas in Syria? Evan Taylor, Counterpunch, 2013-06-28 4:59 …
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Attached is another excellent report by Patrick Cockburn on the disorientating nature of contemporary yellow journalism in the Syrian Civil War. Of course, disorientation is not a new problem in war: Sun Tzu said, “All war is based on deception.” But the ability to manipulate data and images with high-tech computing technology and then distribute …
Patrick Cockburn has written a very important essay on Syria in the London Review of Books (attached below). The essay is aptly titled but has only a few oblique, albeit important, references to Sykes – Picot Agreement, a document some readers may not familiar with. Let’s begin with a little background. The Sykes-Picot agreement (it …
