The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
MAJOR CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF THE CIA – 29/30 APRIL 2011 “LANDSCAPES OF SECRECY: THE CIA IN HISTORY, FICTION, AND MEMORY” VENUE: EAST MIDLANDS CONFERENCE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7RD, UK PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS UNIQUE CONFERENCE IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Listen to top speakers, including Christopher Andrew, Nigel West, Robert Jervis …
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NEW: Below, organized by category, are names, links (first to overview, last to web site), and product descriptions for each of the companies launching at DEMO Spring 2011. According to several of those who have attended past events, this one was “a cut above” an already high standard. What came across clearly was the new …
INTERNET-ENABLED ASYMMETRICAL GIVING A flip side: the asymmetrical gift Yesterday I bummed you out with a riff about favors becoming impossible to fulfill. Worth a thought: the alternative, the good news that comes with the bad, is the massive asymmetric gift. A gift is not a favor, because no recompense is implied or expected. A …
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National Intelligence Estimate Failed to Register Taliban Growth Deferring to Petraeus By GARETH PORTER, Counterpunch, 14 February 2011 Despite evidence that the Taliban insurgency had grown significantly in 2010, the U.S. intelligence community failed to revise its estimate for Taliban forces as part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan in December. That unusual …
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Phi Beta Iota: Below the line is a most intriguing speculative analytic comment on what role Saudi Arabia may have played, and the intersection between religion, despots, military, and the public.
Dear friends, Food is basic. Lester Brown — founder of both the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, author of over 50 books on environmental issues, recipient of 26 honorary degrees and a MacArthur Fellowship, and (according to the Washington Post) “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” — has just published a cogent …
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Robert Fisk: Stay out of trouble by not speaking to Western spies The Independent, 18 December 2010 Almost 30 years ago, a British diplomat asked me to lunch in Beirut. Despite rumours to the contrary, she told me on the phone, she was not a spy but a mere attaché, wanting only to chat about …
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