The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
In my opinion, it is now almost certain that Afghanistan will wreck the presidency of Barack Obama. As I feared, Mr. Obama has allowed the US military and its allies in the Democratic wing and Republican wing of the national-security apparat (there is no real difference between these wings) to ensnare him in the wreckage …
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The Baseline Scenario What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it Who is Carlos Slim? The US increasingly displays characteristics that we have seen many times in middle-income “emerging markets” – new dimensions of vast inequality, forms of financial instability that benefit the best connected, and consistently easy credit for the …
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Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy posted by Juan Cole Sept 7, 2009 http.www.juancole.com/2009/09/where-have-all-broad-shoulders-gone-or.html The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still looking for a job recently. A vast bank robbery by the corrupt on …
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UPDATED 9 January 2016 to add image, preface and paragraph extracts. As a high school honors student at the Singapore American School, I wrote a paper on the causes of the US Civil War and made the same mistake most adults make today: I thought it was about slavery and I never realized that a …
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Rebalancing the Instruments of National Power: Is a National Security Act of 2009 Necessary? Or 2008, Now? By Robert David Steele (Vivas) Original As Published Full Text Online to Facilitate Automated Translation
10 stars–a policy, economic, academic, and civic “tour d’force”, March 15, 2008
On Sale at Home of US Special Forces, September 8, 2007
