The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The chart below shows that Oslo Peace Process was simply a cover and deception operation to ensure Israel’s successful colonization of West Bank The graph on the left shows how the settler buildup was not even slowed down by the so-called Peace Process. Note also how the rate of settlement in the West Bank accelerated …
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Could anything have checked America’s mad rush to war in Iraq in 2003, driven as it was by a cabal of neoconmen intent on cynically manipulating the trauma of 9-11 to achieve a different agenda? Perhaps (1) if Colin Powell had the courage to resign on principle rather than allowing himself to be pressured into …
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Imagine if a senior democratic senator pulled this kind of asinine stunt during the Reagan or Bush II presidencies — Would not the neocons, with McCain in the lead, would howl about usurping the commander chief’s prerogatives? McCain’s Syria Photo-Op Included Rebel Kidnapper Spokesman Says Incident ‘Regrettable,’ McCain Didn’t Know by Jason Ditz Anti-War.com, May …
Pressure is mounting for the US to become involved in the Syrian civil war. Advocates of intervention have all sorts of motives. Once of the most attractive talking points from the perspective of the interventionists is the Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons on its own people. This short and well focused essay addresses that …
The popular perception of Hezbollah as simply an Islamic terrorist organization has been colored by American-Israeli propaganda (particularly wrt to relations with Iran and Syria), sloppy reporting, and a growing sense of Islamophobia in American culture. Rami Khouri is a prolific Lebanese intellectual who writes widely on the Middle East. His austere, direct form of …
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“The Moral is to the Material as Three to One” …or as the Taliban said about the US exit strategy, “You may have the clock, but we have the time.” Drone pilot burnout triggers call for recruiting overhaul EXTRACT: The coming swarm As the Air Force’s drone program grows, so does the importance of pilot selection. …
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Austerity Economics Why Snake Oil is the Drug of Choice for Ayn Rand Wannabees Attached are two important papers, one by Stephanie Kelton and the other by Paul Krugman, arguing that it is time to consign austerity economics to the dustbin of history. Both are variations on a theme and are spot on, IMO. The …
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