The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: Produced by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) this is the Deep State's “dream sheet” for war as a profit center in 2020. President Trump, if re-elected, could end or moderate most of these conflicts.
Impeachment: What Lies Beneath?
So here’s my entirely speculative tea-leaf reading: If there’s a hidden agenda behind the urgency to remove Trump, one that might actually garner the votes of Republican Senators, it is to replace him with a president who will be a more reliable and effective leader for a military attack on Iran that Israel wants to initiate before next November. Spring is the cruelest season for launching wars. . . .
Israel, even less than the US, cannot take casualties. A couple of bull’s eyes, a lot of Israelis go back to Brooklyn. The 82 million people in Iran have no place else to go.
Continue reading “CounterPunch: Is Impeachment Really About War on Iran?”
Hats off to The New York Times for a superb article on Amazon. It barely scratches the surface but it is a very good start. I am the one who inspired Amazon in 2007 with my briefing, “Amazon as the Hub of the World Brain,” but they went down the rabbit hole which was not my intention, I had hoped they would become a source of power for the public rather than an extension of the police state. Amazon is gobbling up — some would say very unethically — both normal online businesses (e.g. Netflix) and open source offerings (e.g. Elastic) while doing mass and a la carte surveillance (e.g delivery drones with cameras on call for law enforcement missions) beyond the pale.
Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World
