The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Mr. Obama’s presidency is now being defined by four intractable problems: (1) Persistent High Unemployment due to the intractable Great Recession; (2) a Financial Giveaway that protected rich Wall Street bankers at the expense of the masses who are suffering economically from the Great Recession the bankers triggered; (2) A BP Environmental Disaster that reveals …
COMMENT: Ten years the FBI has been watching this do-nothing network and this breaks now? The contempt for Obama appears to have reached uncontrollable levels. Fact #1: the network was launched ten years or more ago. Fact #2: the network has not actually done any spying. The timing of this action appears extraordinarily contemptuous of …
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CounterPunch Diary Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obama a Huge Favor By ALEXANDER COCKBURN, Counterpunch Just when Barack Obama’s presidency was drowning in BP’s crude oil, a megalomaniacal US Army general called Stanley McChrystal, commander of the US-led coalition in Afghanistan, did him several huge favors Phi Beta Iota: Absolutely worth the full read. Both the White …
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Obama Misses the Afghan Exit Ramp by Ray McGovern, Consortium News, June 25, 2010 Raymond McGovern (born 1939) is a retired CIA officer turned political activist (see biography). Is President Barack Obama so dense that he could not see why Gen. Stanley McChrystal might actually have wanted to be fired — and rescued from the …
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Rotting Oder of Pentagon Info Op Signals Effort to Shore Up its Great Game in the Hindu Kush On 13 June, James Risen of the New York Times conveniently (at least for the Pentagon and the war party) reported that the “United States has discovered $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan [also …
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Obama as Moral Dupe: Will Erdogan Blink? By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch A recent article by Patrick Cockburn, one of the ablest reporters covering the Middle East, provides an excellent character portrait of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. It is certainly consistent with what little I have been able to learn about this fascinating …
Probably not an inspired choice. MA New York Times June 5, 2010 Pg. 1 Obama To Name Retired General To Top Spy Post By Peter Baker and Eric Schmitt WASHINGTON — President Obama has picked Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. as director of national intelligence, tapping a retired officer with decades of experience to …
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