The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Reinventing Guns and Butter Politics for the 21st Century Ms. Neera Tanden thinks we should make the countries we bomb use their oil wealth to reimburse us for the cost of bombing them. That way we don’t have to cut Head Start, food stamps, or Medicaid. Read Spinney comment with links
The author, a long time friend, is a retired Marine Lt. Colonel and, as a junior officer, served as forward artillery observer in heavy combat in Viet Nam. Key questions unasked in the news about the US attack on Kunduz Hospital By David Evans, Fabius Maximus Website, 22 Oct 2015 10 Hard Questions Below the …
In the last week, much has been made of the leaked DoD briefing entitled ISR Support to Small Footprint (CT) Operations – Somalia and Yemen, dated February 2013. To date, all the reports I have read, save one, focus on the “critical shortfalls” of drone warfare revealed in these slides — see, for example The Intercept, which broke …
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The Republican antics in the hearings of the Benghazi Committee in the House or Representatives are a good example illustrating how broken American politics have become. The clear aim is narrowly political: to embarrass Hillary Clinton (and President Obama) for partisan reasons, while avoiding the roots of the larger Libyan debacle that flowed from the …
The Settlers’ Prussia Uri Avnery, 17 Oct 2015 [The author is a hero of the 1948 Arab-Israel War, a former member of Knesset, and is Israel’s leading peace advocate.]
Below is a very important report describing how a string of US covert operations reaching back to the 1980s has created the bloody shambles in Iraq, Syria and the emergence of ISIS.* The author, Gareth Porter, is one of the finest investigative reporters now operating in the United States. Most importantly, IMO, Porter ends by …
A General Summing Up of the West’s March to Folly in Syria EXTRACT These early failures by the German and American leaderships led to ever more costly missteps and a loss of purpose as the respective leaders ‘dug in’ to defend their mistakes. To make matters worse, some domestic interests — e.g., the Krupp in …
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