The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Chuck Spinney Sends: The attached article, “Generals Open New Front in Washington,” by Pat Buchanan describes how the time honored practice of Versailles Groupthink is now closing in to circumscribe President Obama’s strategic options in Afghanistan and Pakistan, much as it did to Lyndon Johnson during Vietnam. Note how the “strategic” options for Afghanistan are boiling down …
Shutdown Of Intelligence Community E-mail Network Sparks E-Rebellion The Atlantic POLITICS Marc Ambinder Oct 6 2009 The intelligence community’s innovative uGov e-mail domain, one of its earliest efforts at cross-agency collaboration, will be shut down because of security concerns, government officials said. The decision, announced internally last Friday to the hundreds of analysts who use …
Badly marketed on Amazon by a publisher that evidently does not really care for the future of the book, we do what we can to highlight the availability of this new book by Christopher Andrew, In Defence of the Realm, an authorized but not controlled examination of the history of MI-5 (internal security) in the …
When one is brought up, professionally trained, in “systems thinking” and the importance of feedback loops, diversity, and integrity, everything else becomes pedestrian. Today we highlight two books re-inventing the wheel so as to feature an extraordinarily useful but slighting incomplete oration on “expert judgement by our much-admired colleague at NIGHTWATCH, concluding with a list …
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Pushes the Re-Set Button on Both Gore and Lomborg October 3, 2009 Doug L. Hoffman and Allen Simmons The more I read, the less I know and the more frustrated I grow with the insanity of academic, government, corporate, and non-governmental stovepipes of knowledge in isolation. Right up front this book, read crossing the Atlantic …
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Hot Topics BR: Brazil favors developing nuclear weapons for ‘respectability’ 09/28/09 CL: WATER SHORTAGE PREDICTED FOR NORTHERN CHILE 09/24/09 CO: Colombia finds 2 mass graves of peasants, rebels 09/25/09 CO: Colombia to compensate victims of paramilitary massacre 09/24/09 HN: Honduras refuses to allow 4 foreign ambassadors in the country 09/27/09 HN: Political Honduras’ Ousted President …
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In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy Journal, retired Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul responds to charges that he supports terrorism, discusses 9/11 and ulterior motives for the war on Afghanistan, claims that the U.S., Israel, and India are behind efforts to destabilize Pakistan, and charges the U.S. and its allies with responsibility for the lucrative …
