The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Noam Chomsky 5.0 out of 5 stars Explosive Opening, Less Satisfying Conclusion, January 5, 2014 The book explodes on page one: no bankers arrested — none, zip, nada, rein — 7,762 Occupiers arrested from the first 80 in NYC on 24 September 2001 to the two arrested in SF on 15 June 2013. Talk about …
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Selected Sorted Headlines from Intelligence with Integrity @ Phi Beta Iota
Below is a lengthy report on the Benghazi attack that just appeared in the New York Times. The report makes it pretty clear how ideological preconceptions implicit in the Orientation guiding the OODA loops of US policy makers prevented them from making a realistic appreciation of the situation in Benghazi, as well as a larger …
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US Plans to Oust President of Ecuador At the center of Correa’s foreign policy activities is the strengthening of regional Latin American organizations in which there are no U.S. representatives: the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA), …
Attached below are two very important reports by two of the most astute observers of conflicts in the Middle East. The first is a precisely-focused report by Rami Khouri, editor at large of Lebanon’s Daily Star. Khouri analyzes how the recent assassination of Mohamad Chatah needs to be interpreted in the context of complexities of …
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Quadrennial Intelligence Community Review? The Department of Defense began producing the Quadrennial Defense Review in 1997 in response to requests from Congress triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Four of them have been released and the fifth will begin to appear in February or March of 2014. …
Analysis of 330 articles in ABI-INFORM that have “intelligence reform” in the title, abstract or subject. [Bates Information Services, 24 December 2013]
