The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: We’ll figure out the troop balance, probably by getting serious about Of, By, and Through IQ forces between now and July 2010–we do that or both the Democrats and Republicans are toast in November 2010. What merits deep reflection below is the mental health angle that ties in with the Fort Hood …
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a collaboration of some of the world’s top investigative reporters. Launched in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity, ICIJ globally extends the Center’s style of watchdog journalism, working with 100 journalists in 50 countries to produce long-term, transnational investigations. Tobacco Underground The illicit …
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Obama Fails in Middle East Robert Dreyfuss on 11/06/2009 Chuck Spinney Sends….. The announcement by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he will not run for reelection is the exclamation point on the utter collapse of the Obama adminstration’s Middle East policy. Launched to great expectations — the appointment of George Mitchell, Obama’s Cairo declaration that …
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… because, even though Obama may think he is weighing his policy “options,” the Pentagon is busily politically engineering the the flow of infrastructure funds needed to lock in the constituent support for its Long War. 2014 or Bust: The Pentagon’s Afghan Building Boom Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt, November 06, 2009 In our day, …
Hot Topics AA: Europe reluctant to send more troops to Afghanistan 11/03/09 AA: Russia Is Dying To Learn Its Census Data 11/04/09 AA: Australia unlikely to send more troops 11/05/09 AA: Der Spiegel: Mossad hacked Syrian computer to uncover nuclear site 11/02/09 AA: India, Pak again resorting to blame game 11/05/09 AF: Anti-American rumors gain …
Hot Topics AA: MIDEAST: Palestinians File Lawsuits Over Gaza War 10/30/09 AA: The shadow behind US-Israeli war games 11/02/09 AL: Albania opens new offices to fight organised crime 10/30/09 DE: Thirteen injured in military base accident 11/02/09 IL: The use of radioactive uranium in Israeli military operations- An … 10/30/09 IL: Report: How Israel Bombed …
A Long-Term Disaster for Obama and the US The Delegitimization of Karzai By PATRICK COCKBURN The election in Afghanistan has turned into a disaster for all who promoted it. Hamid Karzai has been declared re-elected as president of the country for the next five years though his allies inside and outside Afghanistan know that he …
