The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: We don’t make this stuff up. The Pentagon has no strategy because the U.S. Government has no strategy. The National Security Council is managed by a General who emphasized getting along with the Chief of Naval Operation, never-mind leaving Marines wounded on the battlefield for lack of Naval Gunfire Support (NFS). Join …
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Greed Pricing, Useful Content, March 8, 2010 Completed 30 August 2010 Joseph W. Dellapenna (Editor), Joyeeta Gupta (Editor) I was forced to buy this book as part of a twelve book review for an international organization, and even though it was a business expense, this kind of greed pricing makes me urge all authors to …
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Assistance: US Aid Program for Pakistan Frontier a Flop, Audit Says (Faxts.com News, 30 Jan 10) Assistance: What Failed In The Bureaucracy May Not Work On The Battlefield (Washington Post 2 Feb 10). One of those reasons involving the map system was attributed to the USAID mission in Pakistan, which wanted only USAID programs shown …
miniAtlas of Global Development An at-a-glance guide to the most pressing development issues facing the world today. Highlights key social, economic, and environmental data for 208 of the world’s economies. Green miniAtlas A snapshot, presented in maps and charts, of the world’s most urgent environmental challenges: increasing population, the rising demand for energy and food, …
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Phi Beta Iota: The above search does produce the desired hit but not in the headline, so this search has earned its own headline with our thanks. Notes [Updated]: If bin Laden could have asked his maker for the most helpful possible American reaction to 9-11, he could not have done better than the Bush …
The Radical Legacy Of 1979 By Edward. P. Djerejian If ever one year in recent times was a catalyst for change in the broader Middle East and Muslim world, it was 1979. One ray of bright light in that year of darkness was the signing of the historic Camp David peace treaty between Israel and …
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Nicht Schwerpunkt as a Prescription for Defeat by a 1000 Cuts Recent events like the Fort Hood Massacre and the bungled attempt to fire bomb the airliner bound for Detroit have focused attention on and encouraged our escalating intervention in Yemen, which has been taking place quietly, as if Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan were not …
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