The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A few days ago, in a post mentioned here, John Robb predicted ISIS would invade and take Saudi Arabia in Spring, at the earliest. With King Abdullah dead, http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/middleeast/saudi-arabia-king-abdullah-dies/, Robb has changed his forecast and states ISIS will likely take a southern pivot, moving troops from Iraq and Syria, going south after Mecca and Medina, …
Saudi Arabia may be plunging into an abyss, but the various commentators, while sounding the alarm as they are wont to do, tend to ignore the origins of ISIS (funded by SA and armed by US), the false flag aspects of Paris, and the larger global imbalances that are destined to put dictators and the …
Hypocrisy: Nous Sommes Hypocrites! These ‘staunch defenders’ of the free press are attending today’s solidarity rally in Paris Double Standards: In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons Commentary Below the Line
Jack Fairweather 4.0 out of 5 stars British, CIA, US Flag Level View — Scores Settled, Some Facts Wrong or Missing, November 9, 2014 This is a preliminary review. My usual summary review with detail will be posted in a day or two. I did a fast read last night and formed the following impressions: …
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John L. Cook 4.0 out of 5 stars Deep Insights, A Couple of Misses, Certainly Recommended as Core Reading, November 8, 2014 A hold over from my time in Afghanistan, I finally got around to reading this book on a long flight and give it a solid four stars. There is some very good eye …
Kevin Sites 4.0 out of 5 stars Quick read travelogue, some nuggets, some flaws, October 22, 2014 Previously I have reviewed, very favorably, two other books by this author, In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars and The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done …
There is a need to establish a truthful narrative, background and facts. Below is antithetical to all that. Fraud and Folly in Afghanistan The runoff round of the Afghan presidential election on June 14 was massively rigged, and the ensuing election audit was “unsatisfactory,” a result of Afghan government-orchestrated fraud on a scale exceeding two …
