The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We are fighting Islamism from ignorance, as we did the cold war The west wasted trillions in needless conflict with the USSR. Now we are being brainwashed into confrontation with Iran Simon Jenkins, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 1 March 2012 20.00 GMT Were we wrong? I have lived through two global conflicts: the west against Russian communism …
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Why It Is Time to Clean the Augean Stables of Climate Science Lying for the Cause? by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch, 27 February 2012 (Note: This differs slightly from the original because I have corrected a few typos and grammatical errors and added one short clarifying string of words in [ ]’s.) On 24 …
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The acid test of any scientific theory is whether or not its predictions reasonably match up to reality. The attached paper by Dr. David Evans is important because it compares predictions of climate models predicting global warming to our most advanced temperature measurement technologies. This is a good example of the kind of information that …
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My buddy Mike Lofgren launches another one. Iran and the Shape of Things to Come Mike Lofgren, Huffington Post, Posted: 02/21/2012 7:05 pm Cet animal est tres mechant; quand on l’attaque, il se defend. (This animal is very wicked; when you attack it, it defends itself) – French proverb It is hard not to think …
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This is a real eye opener by a very credible writer A CounterPunch Exclusive: Collusion and Betrayal on the Suez Canal What Really Happened in the “Yom Kippur” War? by ISRAEL SHAMIR, Counterpunch, 22 February 2012 Moscow Here in Moscow I recently received a dark-blue folder dated 1975. It contains one of the most well-buried …
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Sun Tzu or Bismarck: Who will Prevail in the 21st Century? [Note: this first appeared in Time’s Battleland Blog (here)], The first three chapters in Sun Tzu’s timeless classic “The Art of War” describe how to make net assessments by comparing your strengths and weaknesses and those of your adversary and how to formulate strategy. Near …
Yet another first rate piece of work from my good friend Mike Lofgren. The Right-Wing Id Unzipped Tuesday 14 February 2012 by: Mike Lofgren, Truthout | News Analysis Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren spoke with Truthout in Washington, DC, this fall. Lofgren’s first commentary for Truthout, “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of …
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