The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Arab Spring and Revolution Alive Atrocities in South Sudan Cyber-Detective Cyber-Security Intelligence Index Iraq Buys US Drones & Missiles ISI, the CIA and the Mumbai attacks Public Diplomacy: What’s Wrong? Ripe for Rebellion? Risk Chart for 2014 Phi Beta Iota: The USA is in the low risk column. We do not agree. At this time, …
Pentagon’s top three threats in the ‘deep future’ What sorts of threats will the US military face in the “deep future”? That was the topic of a panel at the Association of the US Army (AUSA) conference this week, the heavily attended annual trade show that draws top Pentagon officials and defense contractors. It’s a …
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Looking At a Bigger Picture: Criminals and Rogue Organizations Within Rob Kall OpEdNews, 22 December 2013 We have big problems that are currently out of control and taking our nation careening towards a future that is dangerously out of control. We have, deeply ensconced within our power infrastructures, institutions, organizations and job categories where there …
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NSA Spies, Brazil Shuns Boeing, Selects Saab Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid Until earlier this year, Boeing had been considered the frontrunner for the purchase. But revelations of spying by the U.S. National Security Agency in Brazil, including the personal telephone calls and emails of President Dilma Rousseff herself, led …
Staying in Afghanistan Is a Recipe for More Terrorism Anthony W. Orlando – Huffington Post – 12/12/13 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-w-orlando/staying-in-afghanistan-is_b_4437192.html Barack Obama is daring the terrorists. He’s standing in their front yard. He’s calling them out. Of course, that’s not how it’s reported. “U.S. ‘nowhere near’ decision to pull all troops out of Afghanistan,” was the understated …
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Worth a read, key insights apart from the summary of the books’ contents. Bunches of Guys Owen Bennett-Jones Decoding al-Qaida’s Strategy: The Deep Battle against America by Michael Ryan Columbia, 368 pp, £23.15, September, ISBN 978 0 231 16384 2 The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organisations by Jacob Shapiro Princeton, 352 pp, £19.95, July, ISBN 978 0 691 15721 4
Huh? Do You Trust the Washington Post‘s Sources on Morale at the NSA? Former officials insist that employees are upset because President Obama hasn’t visited to show his support. Conor Friedersdorf Reuters via The Atlantic, Dec 10 2013, 8:20 AM ET A strange Washington Post story gives readers the impression that morale is low at …
