The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Below is an excellent sitrep on the Syrian civil war. The author, Patrick Cockburn, is one of the very best observers of the Middle East. Chuck Spinney DECEMBER 17, 2012 What is Really Happening in Syria Descent Into Holy War by PATRICK COCKBURN, Counterpunch EXTRACT: Syria today resembles Iraq nine years ago in another disturbing …
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Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, “Breaking the Taboo” is produced by Sam Branson’s indie Sundog Pictures and Brazilian co-production partner Spray Filmes and was directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade. Featuring interviews with several current or former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the …
Document: USA HUMINT 1.1 This is tentative (new draft) pending additional feed-back from a handful of still-engaged colleagues. It assumes CIA being dead in the water, reliant on foreign liaison and legal traveler debriefings for 90% of its “clandestine” Human Intelligence (HUMINT), and its OSC being totally out of touch with 80% or more of the …
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In this hard-hitting piece, Assange offers a taste of Wikileaks-released documents that will curl your hair. Two Years of Cablegate as Bradley Manning Testifies for the First Time Julian Assange Huffington Post, 29 November 2012 Thursday, November 29th, Bradley Manning testified for the first time since his arrest two and a half years ago in …
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UPDATE: 1 January 2013 from Spanish Dancer: What is most striking to me, and to a few others I have spoken to recently, is the SECDEF quote early in the paper. If we follow its premise it puts anyone who opposes our projection of power in the cross hairs. It is this doctrinal fluff that …
UPDATE 2 Dec 2012: Wright update, Steele update, at end of original post. As received: On the Linkedin Group, “Intelligence and Security”, a member started a discussion on open source intelligence using a quote from your [forthcoming chapter], “The Craft of Intelligence.” Davidson (a self proclaimed “former CIA Senior Intelligence Officer”) made such a wildly ignorant …
Totally Addictive Education: The Future of Learning Steven Kotler Forbes, 8/27/2012 EXTRACT: Today’s educational system is all about standardization. We treat every kid the same. But not every kid learns the same. Some need the microscopic first, others the macroscopic. Some people are tangential learners, some prefer their facts in a linear fashion. Some are …
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