The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CIA’s Deadly Cultural Ignorance Fear of officers “going native” keeps our intelligence agencies ill-informed about Somalia, Syria, and other hotspots. When the British ran an empire they did it the right way, if one is into imperial management. They created an entire bureaucracy, the Colonial Service, which was manned by officers who were expected to …
Top 45 Lies in Obama’s Speech at the U.N. 1. President Obama’s opening lines at the U.N. on Tuesday looked down on people who would think to settle disputes with war. Obama was disingenuously avoiding the fact that earlier this month he sought to drop missiles into a country to “send a message” but was …
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Speaker: Aaron Y. Zelin, Rena and Sami David Fellow, ICSR Aaron Y. Zelin is the Rena and Sami David Fellow at ICSR and also serves as the Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Zelin’s recent research has examined how global jihadis have reacted to the changing dynamics in the Arab world …
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IN REVERSE ORDER (TODAY FIRST, YESTERDAY SECOND) Russia: President Putin today accused the West of worsening the situation in Syria by “blowing up an internal conflict” there. His remarks were broadcast by state news television channel Rossiya 24. At an international meeting Putin interrupted former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon who said mass murder in …
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Recommended by Berto Jongman Description From Cairo to Damascus and from Tunisia to Bahrain, Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel have brought together some of the most exciting new writing born out of revolution in the Arab world. This is a remarkable collection of testimony, entirely composed by participants in, and witnesses to, the profound changes …
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My friend Bill Polk, a well-known historian with extensive experience in the Middle East and Central Asia and author of many books on these areas, has written a backgrounder on how to make sense out of the Syrian chemical weapons issue. He has given me permission to distribute it. Herewith is his most interesting primer on …
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Robert Dalleck 5.0 out of 5 stars A classic, publisher needs to present it properly, September 12, 2013 This book was strongly recommended to me by Chuck Spinney, the top defense critic since he made the cover of TIME in the 1980’s. I am in Afghanistan and focused on other matters, but I am so …
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