The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Three propositions: (1) Disengage from Afghanistan (2) Close Guantanamo (3) Discipline Drones “How to End the Forever War?” Harold Hongju Koh Oxford Union, Oxford, UK May 7, 2013 EXTRACT: My former professor and former Legal Adviser Abram Chayes once said, after he had sued the United States government from the academy, “I have always thought …
Obama Drone War ‘Kill Chain’ Imposes Heavy Burden At Home Huffington Post, 5 May 2013 EXTRACT: In Afghanistan, the military struck at targets 494 times last year with armed drones, according to data that has since been removed from the Air Forces Central Command website. Information on the number of Afghan civilians killed in these …
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This is what prison privatization is leading to. This is not the first case like this of of Judicial corruption. Yet it is full steam ahead for corporate prisons. How can anyone think that corporate prisons was a good idea? Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced to 28 Years in Prison for Selling Teens to Prisons LOU COLAGIOVANNI …
An important question — the USA no longer does strategic intelligence and it has never done Whole of Government operational or tactical intelligence. The $60B secret world is largely worthless at all four levels of analysis: STRATEGIC: Next Generation near, 100 years our far OPERATIONAL: Whole of Government regional and threat/topic based campaign plans, harmonized …
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This is what NATO and Africa Command call their J-2 over-arching concept. It is a useful concept, although it needs to be taken several steps further and also needs to be properly funded. Right now it is a shadow puppet that lacks proper multi-lingual multinational sourcing, processing, and analysis, both human and machine. Our over-arching …
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New York Times, April 9, 2013 How a Single Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States By MARK MAZZETTI The burly American was escorted by Pakistani policemen into a crowded interrogation room. Amid a clatter of ringing mobile phones and cross talk among the cops speaking a mishmash of Urdu, Punjabi and English, the …
Here is a brilliant essay on the endless wars that enrich the few, and destroy the lives of many, and drain our treasury of the money we should be using to prepare our society for the world that is coming. We are destroying ourselves because we cannot mount the political will to demand life affirming …
