The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power Geopolitical Weekly Stratfor Editor’s Note: The following Geopolitical Weekly originally ran in January 2013. By George Friedman When I wrote about the crisis of unemployment in Europe, I received a great deal of feedback. Europeans agreed that this is the core problem while Americans argued that the United States …
Syria: President Bashar Asad Monday called for a battle against Wahhabism, the political and religious theology embraced by the Saudi Arabian government that backs the Sunni uprising against his regime. “President Assad said that extremists and Wahhabi thought distort the real Islam, which is tolerant,” state news agency SANA reported. He underlined the role of …
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Insurgent Anarchism: an idea whose time has come (Part I) Nozomi Hayase ROAR Magazine, 16 September 2013 In the fall of 2011, as the autumn leaves were turning color, America’s largest metropolitan city was about to grab the world’s attention. On September 17, the first occupiers descended onto lower Manhattan and marched on the stock …
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Attached below are two very important reports by two of the most astute observers of conflicts in the Middle East. The first is a precisely-focused report by Rami Khouri, editor at large of Lebanon’s Daily Star. Khouri analyzes how the recent assassination of Mohamad Chatah needs to be interpreted in the context of complexities of …
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Huh? Islamic Banks, Stuffed With Cash, Explore Partnerships in West A noted Muslim law scholar, Yusuf DeLorenzo, recently pored through the books of Continental Rail, a business that runs freight trains up and down the East Coast. Along with examining the company’s financial health, Mr. DeLorenzo sought to make sure that the rail cars didn’t …
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Anti-Access, Area Denial Israeli Style Mother Nature Intensifies the Gaza Siege by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch Gaza was recently hit by a severe winter storm, and it lacks the electricity, water, and sewage infrastructure to deal with the crisis. Here, FYI, is report in Ma’an, a Palestinian news agency, describing the disastrous effects of this storm. …
IMHO, Snowden needs to experience being the object of an “extraordinary rendition” and then be warehoused incommunicado at either GTMO or one of the Supermax facilities. Too bad that appears tactically infeasible at the moment. Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished By Barton Gellman Washington Post, December 23, 2013 Phi Beta …
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