The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Guest Column — The War On The Poor — Jeffrey St. Clair & Alexander Cockburn The American poor are being driven into the ground. Not only is owning a home out of the question, but also the poor can’t even afford to rent. They lack the money for a damage deposit, and they lack the …
Special Report: Syria – A chemical crime, a complex reaction By John Irish and Warren Strobel Reuters, 17 September 2013 PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In early spring France’s ambassador to the United Nations dined with a Russian colleague and discussed the crisis in Syria. Ambassador Gerard Araud told the Russian diplomat France was going to go …
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This superb piece by Andrew Bacevich (Colonel US Army Ret.) is one the best portraits of what is wrong with self-important warmongering commentariat in the mainstream media: Track records count for nothing in the cozy salons of Versailles on the Potomac. SUNDAY, SEP 15, 2013 3:30 PM UTC David Brooks is constantly wrong Takes a …
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NEW IN BOLD 4th Media: AP Sources: CIA Delivering Light Weapons to Syria 4th Media: Preempting The Next Round of Lies Against Syria Berto Jongman: 10,000 Foreign Fighters in Syria Berto Jongman: Agreement on Destruction of Syrian CW Berto Jongman: Brown Moses on Chemical Munitions Berto Jongman: Developments on the Ground in Syria Berto Jongman: FBI files …
RESOURCES ON CONFLICT IN SYRIA FROM CRS Here are some new and updated reports on the conflict in Syria prepared by the Congressional Research Service: Possible U.S. Intervention in Syria: Issues for Congress, September 3, 2013 As Members of Congress consider the merits of possible military intervention in Syria, they also are reengaging in long-standing …
Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict by Max G. Manwaring Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict Small Wars Journal, 27 August 2013 Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as …
Yemen’s Food & Water Crisis Yesterday I saw an article that indicated Yemen’s capitol, Sana’a, could be out of water in a decade. There were some shocking statistics in that article and in the ReliefWeb article that provided the above map. 40% of Yemen’s water is used to cultivate qat, which is labeled as a narcotic, …
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