The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: As cited by Peter Linebaugh, STOP, THIEF! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance (PM Press, 2014) DECLARATION OF RIGHTS 01 GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only …
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GUEST POST: Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t: The Gordian Knot of Europe’s Jihadi Homecoming By Zach Goldberg Introduction The homecoming of Europe’s jihadi volunteers (or émigrés) from Syria remains an enduring source of public disquiet. That battle-hardened and radicalized Muslim-European passport holders would return to leverage acquired “skills” at home is a specter …
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Her demands sound like OSINT demands in the 1990’s. I will soon be travelling to Sao Paulo to attend NETmundial, the Multi-stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance. The purpose of NETmundial is to develop principles of Internet governance and a roadmap for the future development of this ecosystem. I have already shared with …
The United States is careening toward a New Cold War in its conflict with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine. But a recent poll showed that most Americans can not even locate Ukraine on a map, much less understand the history behind the issues at stake. Moreover, the same poll found that the less they …
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MH370: How Fatal is the Chip That Rothschild Reportedly ‘Acquired’? EXTRACT How destructible could this chip be? In a detailed report from Malaysia Chronicle dated April 8, it said that Freescale launched what could be the world’s smallest microcontroller in Feb 2013 called the Kinesis KL02. KL02 measures 1.9 mm by 2mm and contains RAM, …
Missing the Target: Why the US Has Not Defeated al Qaeda Frederick W. Kagan, TESTIMONY American Enterprise Institute, 8 April 2014 All conditions are set for a series of significant terrorist attacks against the US and its allies over the next few years. But that’s not the worst news. Conditions are also set for state …
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Huh? Scrap Heap of War: Billions in equipment being left behind in Afghanistan How much “stuff” is the United States military leaving behind as it withdraws from Afghanistan after 12 years of war? Try some $6 billion worth. And much of it may yet end up in a junk pile. That includes 850 MRAPS (Mine-Resistant …
