The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The joint-service F-35 strike fighter is the Pentagon’s largest program. In fact, it is the most expensive procurement program in the Pentagon’s history. It is also an unfolding disaster that is well documented, but of almost unimaginable proportions. And yet, the F-35 is impervious to budget cutbacks in sequesterland. Not surprisingly, among the cognoscenti of …
Oren: Israel trying to guarantee US military aid By GLOBES/RAN DAGONY Jerusalem Post, 02/03/2013 In light of cuts in US gov’t spending, Israeli ambassador says J’lem will try to safeguard funding for Iron Dome, Arrow. Jerusalem is working to salvage some of the military aid the US provides Israel, after US President Barack Obama …
.. Or Escalating the Old Boot On Campus Game Below is an important, excellent and scary report by Kelley Vlahos. But the MICC’s infiltration of elite campus’s is even worse that Ms. Vlahos says, because it builds on deep historical roots and tradition. Yale, a main focus of her report, has a long history of its …
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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 …
You really have to love these contract terms, “indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity,” especially in a time of austerity economics. Nation.Time.com, February 21, 2013 Military Spending Sequestration is for Sissies: $6.9 Billion More for the F-22 By Mark Thompson Pentagon officials took to PBS and the Pentagon press room to warn Wednesday about the impending sequester’s …
My good friend Mike Lofgren, a former Republican staffer on the House and Senate Budget Committees, and author of the The Party is Over: How the Republicans Went Crazy, the Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, is still elaborating on his accurate — and in this case hilarious — diagnosis of the party of …
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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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