The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
It is difficult for any intelligent moral citizen to stand by and watch their country self-destruct. Between the ideological idiots on the extreme right and the mere idiots on the extreme left, America is in a pickle. Elsewhere I have posited a solution for 2012. Here I am obliged, from a sense of duty to …
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A NEW INTELLIGENCE ORG ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS NEEDED, DSB SAYS The U.S. intelligence community needs an organization that can assess the impacts of climate change on U.S. national security interests in an open and collaborative manner, according to a new report from the Defense Science Board (DSB). The Director of National Intelligence should establish …
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CIA runs all-source analytic competition for universities — neither the Open Source Center nor Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) are anywhere to be found. Deja vu? Covert Operation WC Wins High Honors at CIA Tri-State Intelligence Simulation Phi Beta Iota: This was probably a variation of the superb Mid-Career Course (CIA’s mini-war college) analytic exercise but …
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Note: Use Google translate for a readable but ugly English version that in some cases flips meaning. Where the French is translated as “bastard” the original English quote offered up “runt.” Les espions s’ouvrent au public OWNI France, 10 novembre 2011 Au début du mois et pour la première fois de son histoire, la CIA …
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We Need the Money and we Need It Now [email] he Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) is in panic city over what promises to be cosmetic cutbacks in the growth of the defense budget. The courtiers in Versailles on the Potomac, like the obedient editors of the Washington Post, are dutifully pumping out …
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The triumphalism in the US surrounding the liquidation of Qadaffi may be short lived. That is because most Americans do not appreciate how the legacy of anti-colonialism shapes the contemporary cultural DNA in North Africa or how influential that legacy has been in shaping the revolts of what is now called the Arab Spring. There …
