The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Setting the Stage for Information-Sharing in the 21 st Century: Three Issues of Common Concern to DoD and the Rest of the World Robert D. Steele The more I read and talk to people as I work up for this the more I think it comes down to three issues:
What happens if you marry Open Source to Oil? Why don’t we use open source software development techniques in the energy industry? There’s an easy answer to that, of course. The current structure of competition is so heavily biased towards zero-sum game conceptions, between companies and between the corporate sector and host governments, that it …
Below is a brilliant synopsis of America’s defeat in Iraq. The author Patrick Seale, whom I had the pleasure of meeting last summer, is one of the leading authorities on the Middle East. Seale lays out the costs incurred and the unintended grand-strategic consequences of the US invasion of Iraq, and he reminds of us …
More evidence, as if we needed it, of the lack of integrity of this administration….. New Afghan War Plan Concedes the Surge Fell Short Spencer Ackerman WIRED, 1 November 2011 As the Obama administration winds down its troop surge in Afghanistan, it’s adopted a new political strategy for ending the war. And that new strategy …
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Recommended. Long and thoughtful. Occupy to Self Manage By Michael Albert I have yet to see my nearest large occupation, Boston, or the precursor of all U.S. occupations, Wall Street. Instead, I have been on the road for the past six weeks in Thesselonika and Athens Greece; Istanbul and Diyarbikar Turkey; Lexington, Kentucky; London, England; …
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The 2012 election is now in play, and the Republican wing of the war party is gearing up to blame President Obama for America’s failed wars (who, while not entirely blameless, is hardly the architect of defeat) and the accompanying national humiliation. This email is about an opening shot that just appeared in the Weekly …
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