2012 The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust (Evolver Editions, June 2012)

SHORT URL TO THIS PAGE: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele Updated 1 June 2012. WARNING:  The “free download” is a Chinese virus, generally identified across various websites with the preface (hotpdf).  Under the terms of the contact this book is NOT free online as with all of Robert Steele’s other books and publications. Extracts, Reviews, 33 Slides in Color, …

Event: Feb 17-19, Berkeley, CA – “Occupy the Truth” Whistleblower Conference

Transparency needs your brain. Whistleblowers need your protection. Fresh Juice Party invites you to bring your ideas. Please join our co-sponsors KPFA Pacifica Radio 94.1FM, journalists, former military personnel, academics, activists, policy makers, media experts, filmmakers and whistleblowers for an open discussion designed to encourage unexpected interdisciplinary alliances and action. Event Link

Penguin: “Or Your Lying Eyes…” Truth and Fiction in the News Business – Conspiracy of Lies While US Networks Prepare & Rehearse for Israeli Attack on Iran

“Or Your Lying Eyes…” Truth and Fiction in the News Business Alex Cockburn Counterpunch, Weekend Edition February 10-12, 2012 If you want a sense of what could well lie in store for Syria, go no further than Anthony Shadid’s report from Libya in the New York Times for February 9. Shadid, a good reporter, describes …

Robert Steele: Catholic Church Debates Secrecy vs Truth – Something We Should All Be Doing…

Although I held clearances until 2006 from 1976 when I was the S-1/Adjutant for Battalion Landing Team 3/4 out of Okinawa (six countries, six ships, six months), it was not until 15 August 1979, when I entered on duty with the Central Intelligence Agency, that the “truth” became my calling.  My class was one of …

NIGHTWATCH: Syria, Russia, US, Iran, Israel, Lies, & Truth + RECAP

Syria: Special comment. Readers are rightly perplexed about conditions in Syria. Syrian press restrictions inhibit any neutral or balanced coverage. Everything reported from opposition sources and activists is biased and some reports of massacres include manufactured images, according to eyewitnesses. International news descriptions of a worsening crisis receive no offsetting coverage of testimony from non-Sunni …