The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A few days ago, in a post mentioned here, John Robb predicted ISIS would invade and take Saudi Arabia in Spring, at the earliest. With King Abdullah dead, http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/middleeast/saudi-arabia-king-abdullah-dies/, Robb has changed his forecast and states ISIS will likely take a southern pivot, moving troops from Iraq and Syria, going south after Mecca and Medina, …
Failure Is Success: How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century “While taxpayer dollars flowed into your coffers, no one considered it a problem that the country lacked 17 overlapping outfits bent on preventing approximately 400,000 deaths by firearms in the same years; nor 17 interlocked agencies dedicated to safety on our roads, where more …
Scotland on the Euphrates The Obsolescence of the Nation-State by URI AVNERY Counterpunch, WEEKEND EDITION SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2014 [This essay originally appeared at http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/index.html ] TWO COUNTRIES competed this week for first place in news programs all over the world: Scotland and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. There could not be a greater …
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Big Data: Oh, Oh, This Revolution Requires Grunt Work I read “For Big-Data Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle to Insights.” The write up from the newspaper that does not yet have hot links to the New York Times’ store, has revealed that Big Data involves “janitor work.” Interesting. I thought that Big Data was …
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This is an informative and important report written by one of the best reporters covering events in the Middle East. I reformatted it slightly and highlighted it to emphasize points I think are important. If you find this distracting, this link will take readers to the original. Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of …
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The Red (Team) Analysis Weekly 159 – An Accelerating U.S. Decline? Editorial – What appears as most amazing this week is a perception of an accelerating American decline on the world stage. A few months ago, we warned that changes related to the dollar supremacy were in the making, even if they would, most probably, need a relatively …
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JUNE 16, 2014 Polk Report How to Evolve an Exit Strategy From America’s Foreign Policy Shambles by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY and WILLIAM R. POLK, Counterpunch Attached beneath my introductory comment is an essay by the American historian William R. Polk. His subject is the American predilection for non-learning in foreign policy. My comment is intended …
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