The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
In this very informative essay, Nicolas Pelham describes how King Mohammad of Morocco and his apparat finessed the Arab Spring, even though Morocco’s poverty is far worse than Tunisia’s and the oppression of its poor by his apparat is nearly as bad as President Ben Ali’s in Tunisia. Whether or not Mohammad dodged the revolutionary …
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Here we go again…. Why the CIA Is Applauding the Pentagon’s Intelligence Grab Jennifer Sims Foreign Affairs, May 18, 2012 Last month, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced the creation of a new U.S. espionage agency: the Defense Clandestine Service, or DCS. DCS is expected to expand the …
Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2012 also Army.mil The U.S. Army In A Time Of Transition Building a flexible force By Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Army Chief of Staff After six months as chief of staff, I can see clearly that the coming decade will be a vital period of transition for the U.S. Army. The …
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Revolution @State: The Spread of Ediplomacy Executive summary The US State Department has become the world’s leading user of ediplomacy. Ediplomacy now employs over 150 full-time personnel working in 25 different ediplomacy nodes at Headquarters. More than 900 people use it at US missions abroad. Ediplomacy is now used across eight different program areas at …
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Saudi Arabia: For the record. European Christian websites have reported Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Shaikh, one of the most influential religious leaders in the Muslim world, issued a fatwa against non-Muslim places of worship last week. In response to a Kuwaiti lawmaker who asked whether Kuwait could ban church construction in Kuwait, the Sheikh …
Tough to only have a hammer when you really need a fly swatter. Washington Post March 25, 2012 Pg. 1 The CIA’s Enigmatic Al-Qaeda Hunter Convert to Islam has led spy agency’s renewed assault on terror group By Greg Miller For every cloud of smoke that follows a CIA drone strike in Pakistan, dozens of …
Complexity and Reflexivity Papers presented at the Washington Academy of Sciences Washington, DC, March 31-April 1, 2012 UPDATED 24 Feb to post all links Conceptions of Complexity and Implications for Economics Stuart Umpleby, The George Washington University, Washington, DC Experiments in Reflexive Inquiry Kent Myers, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton Conceptual Difficulties and Pragmatic Responses to …
