The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Attached is a very different analysis of emerging politics in the Middle East. I do not know what to make of it. Some of it rings true to me, like the pressures on Turkey to shift gears … but taken together, I just don’t know. I welcome any comments, pro or con, about it. I …
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Heather Linebaugh’s personal account of her work on the US drone program gives one set of reasons for why that program should be stopped immediately. Another reason was given by the Prime Minister of Pakistan two days ago: the use of drones in Pakistan violates the national sovereignty of that country and is protested by …
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Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the War on the West “We are bringing them the plague.” —Sigmund Freud, on his way to America in 1909[1] Like Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud did not base psychoanalysis, which he championed to the entire Western world, on scientific premises. When psychoanalysis came to America, it was largely viewed as an …
Continue reading “Jonas E. Alexis: Religious Counterintelligence — Was Freud a Zionist Subversive?”
PDF (49 Pages): ARSTRAT_IO_Newsletter_v14_no_01 In this issue: 1. How to Fight Cyber War? Estonia Shows The Way 2. Utilizing Social Media during Major Events 3. Google Launches Project Shield Cybersecurity Initiative for ‘Free Expression’ 4. U.S.-Style Personal Data Gathering Is Spreading Worldwide 5. How They …
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
Why Didn’t We Learn From Vietnam? Individual soldiers deserted in huge numbers, whole units refused to fight, there was rebellion in some Barracks, and numerous incidents of fragging, some preceded by warnings to officers and non-coms to back off, others not. There were large mass demonstrations at home in America and the situation became so …
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BIG IDEAS: China Fixated on the Moon BIG IDEAS: PhD Should be PSD (Problem-Solving Degree) CYBER: Israeli Hacking School ETHICS: Destruction of the US Information Agency — and US Diplomacy ETHICS: UK Targets Guardian Over Leaks SURVEY: Risks of State-Led Mass Killings in 2014 THREAT: 10 Guns, Bombs, and Weapons You Can Build at the …
