The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
To the Editor: The Intelligence Community Group at LinkedIn is full of smart folks whose thinking either supports or complements the long-standing views of the Phi Beta Iota collective. Specifically, there is a general feeling that the U.S. Intelligence System is really morally and systematically broken. RW The U.S. Intelligence Community as the Land of …
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SSI Monograph 1 June 2010
Andrew Cockburn’s essay in The Pentagon Labyrinth is titled “Follow the Money.” There are a lot of people who will say that is an undignified way to assess America’s national security apparatus; they might even say that Cockburn’s focus is cynical. I would personally venture to guess that a disproportionate number of those saying so are …
The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun For the U.S., democracy’s fate in the region matters much less than the struggle between the Saudis and Iran Robert D. Kaplan Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2011 Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled …
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Subject: AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? Ignorance and courage in the age of Lady Gaga By Joe Bageant Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times. Such as: How can …
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Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Israel (rogue spoiler), Libya, Cote d’Ivoire (the tsumani spreads). Phi Beta Iota: “Secular youth” is the opposite of Islamic fundamentalist. Similarly, academics, professionals, and small business managers as well as labor generally our “secular” instead of fundamentalist. The West appears to be having difficulty with this obvious foundation point, …
Wesley Clark interview (March 2007): “We plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years” Synopsis: 10 days after 9-11, visiting Joint Staff, not only knew we were going to take down Iraq, a few weeks later but got the list of six other countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran Watch the short …
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