The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Obama as LBJ: Domestic Politics, Escalation and the Descent Into Chaos There have been many comparisons of the Afghan escalation question to its equivalent question in Vietnam 45 years ago, but I think the most ominous similarity lies in the way each escalation debate devolved into intellectual incoherence and confusion, mutating into an exhausted disorder, …
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Hot Topics CN: China’s Cyberwars 11/19/09 CN: AP NewsBreak: China holds, mistreats US geologist 11/19/09 CN: China legislator seeks to criminalise banquets: report 11/21/09 ID: Indonesian president issues order to publicly expose high-profile bank scam 11/23/09 IN: Security still lacking one year after Mumbai attacks 11/21/09 KP: Defector tells of life in North Korean army …
Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON — The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer. Treasury officials now face a trifecta …
Hot Topics AA: ‘Northern Taliban’ threatens Central Asia 11/17/09 AA: Report: Gilad Shalit could be freed by next week 11/18/09 AA: The KSM Trial Will Be an Intelligence Bonanza for al Qaeda 11/16/09 AF: Troop Morale Drops in Afghanistan, Army Study Says 11/15/09 IR: Iran moves to silence opposition with internet crime unit 11/15/09 PK: …
Fortunately, most librarians have gotten used to the fact that the Internet is a tremendous boon to researchers and that free information is a fantastic idea. Sure, we haven’t yet reallocated our organizational resources to recognize this fact—our staff time is much more likely to be devoted to acquiring and messing about with purchased information …
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Hot Topics AA: Caucasus and Balkans, Karabakh and Bosnia 11/14/09 AA: Age of cyber warfare is ‘dawning’ 11/17/09 AA: Ankara, Baku need to stand together against outside forces 11/13/09 AA: France And Turkey: With Or Without The EU? 11/15/09 AA: Report: Missing Iranian general kidnapped to Israel 11/14/09 AA: Trial of Gay Spy Threatens to …
UN food summit ends with ‘crumbs’ in hunger fight By FRANCES D’EMILIO (AP) – 1 hour ago ROME — The head of a U.N. food agency expressed regret Wednesday that an anti-hunger summit failed to result in precise promises of funding, and critics said the meeting had only thrown crumbs to the world’s 1 billion …
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