The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Using the extra-judicial liquidation of Anwar al-Awlaqi as a point of departure, Patrick Seale provides very useful and important survey of the strategic and grand strategic implications of the expanding U.S. conflict in what now might be called the Yemen Theater of Operations (YTO) in what is rapidly mutating into a U.S. Jihad against the …
Assassinating Awlaki The Day America Died by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, Counterpunch, 4 October 2011 September 30, 2011 was the day America was assassinated. Some of us have watched this day approach and have warned of its coming, only to be greeted with boos and hisses from “patriots” who have come to regard the US Constitution …
Want a headache … read this! Chuck Spinney Blanes, Spain MEC Analytical Group 29 September 2011 The Sahara According to a spokesman of the Libyan National Transitional Council Qadhafi is believed to be holed up near the western town of Ghadamis near the Algerian border under the protection of Tuareg tribesmen. Qadhafi supported Tuareg rebellions …
Democrats in the US like to think they can use green politics to revitalize their base. But will going green achieve this end when most of the people in the world (and the US) are either poor or lower middle class and the distribution of income is getting worse in a global economy dominated by …
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This is really good analysis. Fiascos of American Foreign Policy by Patrick Seale Agence Global, 27 Sep 2011 U.S. President Barack Obama is piling up foreign policy disasters. In at least three areas, crucial for world peace and American interests — Arab-Israel, Afghanistan-Pakistan and Yemen-Somalia — he is pursuing a course which can only be …
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President Obama’s craven performance at the UN has both humiliated the United States and made a mockery of what little remains of America’s pretensions to the principles of freedom, democracy, fair play, and simple human decency. Like Colin Powell, he made the wrong turn at the “to be” or “to do” fork in the road; …
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Radioactive Rice “Far Exceeding” Safe Levels Found in Japan Published on Saturday, September 24, 2011 by Reuters by Chikako Mogi TOKYO – Japan found the first case of rice with radioactive materials far exceeding a government-set level for a preliminary test of pre-harvested crop, requiring thorough inspection of the rice to be harvested from the …
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