The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The deception that lurks in our data-driven world Add it all up, and you have a significant problem in the way our society produces knowledge. . . . . . . The hidden underpinnings of the world were revealed only when they were gone. . . . . . . We’ve deceived ourselves into thinking …
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Real Democracy (Direct Democracy) & Feasible Implementation Six offerings against the doctrines which state “We cannot change the system” or “There is no better system than the current one”!
UNHINGED: American Terror, Torture, & Treason SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/CIA-UNHINGED Robert David Steele PDF (5 Pages): UNHINGED TORTURE as published with cover matter Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program by Porter Goss et al, Naval Institute Press, 352 pp., £14.99, September, ISBN 978 1 591 14587 …
Christine L. Borgman 5 Stars Major Contribution with Some Oversights This book is extremely well-developed and and a major contribution, not least because it it one of the best explorations of information ecologies that are vastly more intricate and cover vastly more time, energy, and locational space, than most realize. It was recommended to me …
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Grading Gerasimov: Evaluating Russian Nonlinear War Through Modern Chinese Doctrine Victor R. Morris in Small Wars Journal, 17 September 2015 Unrestricted war is a war that surpasses all boundaries and restrictions. It takes nonmilitary forms and military forms and creates a war on many fronts. It is the war of the future. -Colonel Qiao Liang …
The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed. EXTRACT The preeminent geostrategic challenge of this era is not violent Islamic extremists or a resurgent Russia. It is the impact of China’s …
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US Intel Vets Decry CIA’s Use of Torture Torture defenders are back on the offensive publishing a book by ex-CIA leaders rebutting a Senate report that denounced the brutal tactics as illegal, inhumane and ineffective. Now, in a memo to President Obama, other U.S. intelligence veterans are siding with the Senate findings and repudiating the torture apologists. Comment by …
