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2012/02/01

NIGHTWATCH: Syria, Iran, and the Regional Context

Syria-Iran: The Iranian news agency reported Ayatollah Khamenei on Tuesday criticized the US for interfering in Syria’s internal affairs, but said Iran would accept political reforms in Damascus. Khamenei said, “Iran’s stance towards Syria is to support any reforms that benefit the people of this country and oppose the interference of America and its allies …

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2012/01/182012/03/22

Mini-Me: Iran Is NOT a Nuclear Threat — Cover for Other Actions

Huh? We, we, we’ve been lied to? How can this be? Top US Nuclear Expert Tells Obama: There Is No Weapons Threat From Iran January 16, 2012 • 1:29AM The former director of U.S. programs for production of nuclear materials and components for nuclear weapons, Clinton Bastin, sent an open letter to President Obama the …

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2011/12/222011/12/22

NIGHTWATCH: US Invades Iraq, Creates first Arab Shi’ite State

ALERT: Iraq becoming the first Arab Shi’ite state, allied with Iran. Iraq: Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki urged Kurdish officials to hand over Sunni Arab Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on terror charges and threatened to replace ministers who belong to the Sunni Arab Iraqiyah bloc if they do not end a Cabinet boycott.

2011/12/04

Chuck Spinney: Is Iran an Enemy of the Arabs? NO!

The West, especially the United States, and Israel are stoking the grand-strategic fires in Middle East by trying to intensify the conflict between the Sunnis and the Shias. As Patrick Seale explains in this important essay, our leaders are playing very a dangerous, and I would add, ‘dirty’ game — but the United States are …

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2011/11/25

Chuck Spinney: Averting Civil War in Syria

Patrick Seale is one of the finest and most experienced writers now reporting on the Middle East Averting Civil War in Syria by Patrick Seale Agence Global, 22 Nov 2011 Syria is heading for a bloody sectarian civil war. The mutual kidnappings, torture, beheadings and displacement of populations taking place between the Sunni and Alawi …

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2011/11/182020/10/11

Reference (2010): Human Intelligence (HUMINT) – All Humans, All Minds, All the Time [PDF & Full Text Online]

Human Intelligence (HUMINT): All Humans, All Minds, All the Time (US Army Strategic Studies Institute, June 2010) Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-HUMINT Below the line: full text for automated translation. The Amazon version is published by someone else abusing my original copyright granted only to SSI. Click on cover for free PDF download, or read full text …

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2011/11/06

Behavioural Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motives Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict by Andrew Mackay and Steve Tatham ; foreword by Stanley McChrystal.

The Small Wars Journal Blog has a post previewing a new book by Andrew Mackay and Steve Tatham. Behavioural Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motives Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict considers how the West’s Post Cold War conflicts have been fought amongst people rather than between armies. From publisher’s description: “These people, amongst …

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