The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CYBER: 2014 Top Cyber Security Threats CYBER: Increasing Anti-Surveillance Momentum and the Necessary and Proportionate Principles (EFF) CYBER: Russia Internet Extremism Bill CYBER: Trojan.Skimer.18 Infects ATMs CYBER: World’s Biggest Data Breaches Visualized OPEN: Iranian Nuclear Deal OPEN: US, India, & Gulf (Cordesman) OPEN: US & UK Close Relations with Gaddafi Intel THREAT: CAR Humanitarian Crisis …
Included in this interesting essay about the situation in Ukraine is a useful reminder of how the West succumbed to the short-term temptations of triumphalism when Gorbachev ended the Cold War in the early 1990s. The Risks of the EU’s Geopolitics on the Cheap in Ukraine by Vadim Nikitin, Agence-Global Released: 09 Dec 2013 A …
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Anglo-American Axis: Losing Ukraine or Losing Europe Putin Can Win the Game? What is it that really “scared the hell” out of the Anglo-Americans? Could Ukraine become an area of cooperation between Russia and Europe? Could European countries break free? Concerning Ukraine, it now appears that the fury shown by the Anglo-Americans (that seems really …
Crucial Adventures in Systems Thinking Systems are everywhere. They shape us and we can, do, and should shape them. Our destiny is tied up with them but they are pretty invisible. In this essay I explore some useful systems dynamics and perspectives and share two essays by others exploring the same vast territory in search …
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The Kurds are the world’s largest ethnic group (25-35 million) without a nation. As the graphic below shows, Kurds are widely distributed throughout the turbulent regions of Middle East and Central Asia. The green areas are the major areas of heavy Kurdish concentration — but small enclaves exist in areas not marked. (For example, I …
A Reckless Disregard for Truth and Sanity The Syrian Guns of August by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch, December 1, 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/10/the-syrian-guns-of-august/ Remember the thumping of Obama’s war drums for a US attack on Syria last August and September, including his spokesmen’s absurd invocations of Kosovo as a precedent for a limited cruise missile strike on Syria? The …
December 7, 2013 Dangerous Times: Inspector Clouseau Brings Peace By James Lewis A nuclear arms race is now arising in the Middle East, starting with an Iranian nuke, then a Saudi and Egyptian one. Nobody knows the end game. Obama’s biggest legacy may be worldwide instability for years to come.
