The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CIA’s Deadly Cultural Ignorance Fear of officers “going native” keeps our intelligence agencies ill-informed about Somalia, Syria, and other hotspots. When the British ran an empire they did it the right way, if one is into imperial management. They created an entire bureaucracy, the Colonial Service, which was manned by officers who were expected to …
Mutters – The Pretenders of Strategic Planning Have you heard…. “Strategy is a waste of time.” “The agenda is just like last year where we achieved nothing.” “We got no real direction, and nothing we agreed was ever implemented afterwards”. Sound familiar? The typical company strategy planning process involves a few days at a remote …
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IN REVERSE ORDER (TODAY FIRST, YESTERDAY SECOND) Russia: President Putin today accused the West of worsening the situation in Syria by “blowing up an internal conflict” there. His remarks were broadcast by state news television channel Rossiya 24. At an international meeting Putin interrupted former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon who said mass murder in …
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Who Benefits From America’s State of Perpetual War? Putin Lectures Obama by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, COUNTERPUNCH, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 That our Noble Peace Prize winning President and the Congress needed a rational lecture [also attached below] on the need for a little common sense in foreign policy, from a graduate of the KGB, says a …
Russia-Syria: The Russian military news agency, Interfax-AVN, reported two more Russian ships are heading to the Mediterranean Sea. The destroyer Nastoychivyy of the Baltic Fleet and the patrol combatant Smetlivy of the Black Sea Fleet will join the Russian Navy’s task force in Mediterranean in the next few days, Interfax-AVN was told at the Main …
Syria: President Asad gave an interview to Le Figaro which was published by the Syrian news agency Sana on 3 September. Excerpts follow. Asad denied Syrian forces launched a chemical attack. He said Syria has no motive to make such an attack because it is winning the fight. He challenged the US to produce its …
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INTELLIGENCE AGENCY BUDGETS REVEALED IN WASHINGTON POST Secret intelligence agency budget information was abundantly detailed in the Washington Post yesterday based on Top Secret budget documents released by Edward Snowden. See “U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary” by Barton Gellman and Greg Miller, Washington Post, August 29. The newly …
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