The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Pentagon’s Gitmo Recidivism Claims Don’t Add Up Researchers at Seton Hall and New America Foundation track the Pentagon’s claims that released Guantanamo detainees ‘returned to battle.’ Phi Beta Iota: Government claims 1 in 5 and counts those who speak to the press against USG and Guantanamo. Researcers find 1 in 25 at best and observe …
CAN HAITI SURVIVE? The United States and many other nations across the globe are sending water, food and troops to benighted Haiti. Charity groups and NGOs from New York to San Francisco are collecting money. The French are calling for a “conference on Haiti’s reconstruction and development.” At least in these first few weeks following …
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Muscling Latin America: The Pentagon has a new Monroe Doctrine (The Nation) In September Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, delivered on an electoral promise and refused to renew Washington’s decade-old, rent-free lease on an air base outside the Pacific coast town of Manta, which for the past ten years has served as the Pentagon’s main South …
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After reading this report by my good friend Werther, I would urge you to compare Werther’s analysis to the “inside the beltway,” K Street analyses published in today’s Washington Post — then decide which you like better. Chuck Spinney High Court Decrees Existence of Corporate Übermensch By Werther (Pseudonym) Electric Politics January 22, 2010 The …
Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision was a major blow to the two suits testing warrantless eavesdropping and executive branch powers implemented following the 2001 terror attacks. The San Francisco judge said the courts are not available to the public to mount that challenge. “A citizen may not gain standing …
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Is America going to hell? After a year of economic calamity that many fear has sent us into irreversible decline, the author finds reassurance in the peculiarly American cycle of crisis and renewal, and in the continuing strength of the forces that have made the country great: our university system, our receptiveness to immigration, our …
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