The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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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Below and at the link is a comprehensive discussion of the emerging grand strategy that is shaping Turkey’s foreign initiatives. It deserves careful reading. Stealth Superpower: How Turkey is chasing China to become the next big thing by John Feffer John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, …
Smart Pig: BP’s OTHER Spill this Week by Greg Palast for Buzzflash.com Friday, May 28 2010 With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there’s no space in the press for British Petroleum’s latest spill, just this week: over 100,000 gallons, at its Alaska pipeline operation. A hundred thousand used to be a lot. Still …
FULL STORY: Declassified (newsweek.com/blogs) May 28, 2010 By Mark Hosenball On Dennis Blair’s last day in office as director of national intelligence, the Obama administration seems more stymied than ever in its efforts to replace him. Following a torrent of criticism from Capitol Hill—apparently touched off by this Declassified interview with Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the …
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A Dagger to the CIA On December 30, in one of the deadliest attacks in CIA history, an Al Qaeda double agent schemed his way onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan and blew himself into the next life, taking seven Americans with him. How could this have happened? Agency veteran Robert Baer explains, offering chilling …
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This is a dynamite op-ed written jointly by my good friend Marshall Auerback and Rob Parenteau. Chuck Coming to a Country Near You Let a Dozen Latvias Bloom? By MARSHALL AUERBACK and ROB PARENTEAU The article’s bottom line conclusion: It is now time for the rest of us to follow the Lilliputians of Iceland: to …
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Webster G. Tarpley March 3, 2010 It has been evident for some time that the ongoing speculative attack on Greece, along with such other countries as Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Italy, was not primarily a reflection of their economic fundamentals, nor yet a spontaneous movement of “the market,” but rather an orchestrated action of economic …
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