The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The linked article by William Pfaff illustrates how the Pentagon set up Mr. Obama to do its bidding. Are Obama’s Hands Tied? 28 September 2010 By William Pfaff A splendid and courageous new book, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, by Andrew J. Bacevich of Boston University (and for many years previously, the U.S. …
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Afghanistan: The Pentagon’s Lost War By William Pfaff, Truthdigg.com, 27 July 2010 While it is unquestionable that Barack Obama made the war in Afghanistan “his” war, it also is true that it was served to him on a platter and with a gun pressed against his back. It was in fact the Pentagon’s chosen war. …
CS: The United States may be on the cusp of a double dip recession and the government (the President and Congress) appears to be on the verge of making the same mistake Franklin Roosevelt made in 1937 — namely moving to reduce the federal deficit before the recovery was locked into place. Most historians now …
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One of the probable spinoffs of America’s disastrous “you are with us or against us” unilateralism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iran, etc., is a loss of our moral authority to lead other nations into supporting our adventures. In this regard, the future of Nato is the big question mark. This question can not be …
Posted on May 11, 2010 By William Pfaff The obituaries written of the European currency, the euro, have demonstrated divergences in national and cultural temperaments, the European funereal and laden with gloom about the future, but unyielding, and the American and British cheerfully and self-satisfiedly shoveling earth onto a casket of euros already six feet …
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USAID: Understaffed and overwhelmed in Afghanistan Obama’s troop surge fails to address how to improve delivery of aid. A dramatic shortage of program officers as well as auditors and investigators and poor security conditions on the ground have all conspired, the 128-page report concludes, to “significantly impair” the objectives of USAID’s mission, which is to …
A Disappointing Year With Obama By William Pfaff Posted on Nov 10, 2009 Who would have thought a year ago that most of the issues of conflict in America’s foreign relations would be made worse during the first year following Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president? Even those disputes or differences that were appeased or quiet a …
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