The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
In my last Counterpunch essay, “How Obama’s Initial Personnel Decisions Hardwired the Wipeout” I organized my argument around verbiage describing how Obama “fatal move” to the middle,” leaving the misleading impression that his connection to the middle occurred after the election. This was sloppy wording and in retrospect it is clear to me that impression …
Continue reading “Reference: Obama & Wall Street–Bloomberg Next?”
Source 1: Collateral Damage–US Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 Source 2: Evil is as Evil Goes–Globalization at Work
Stunning Account of Unethical Incompetence Triumphant July 26, 2010 Christopher J. Petherick I strongly recommend that this book (or my review) be read in conjunction with its counterpart for Guatemala, Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 (or my review). I’ve been a clandestine case officer (C/O) with three tours …
Continue reading “Review: The CIA in Iran–The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the US-Iran Divide”
In my last blaster (here), I raised a question of whether the Israelis were trying to hijack the Green Lobby or whether they were ready for the rubber room. This was made in response to a report by Jonathan Cook that contended Israel was greenwashing war on terror. It turns out that I may have …
Continue reading “Journal: Israel, Neo-Cons, Big Oil, Iraq, & Green”
In American politics, the interests of two powerful factions are never questioned by an adoring, pusillanimous Congress: the US Military (really the political-economy of the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex) and Israel (a foreign country represented by the Israeli lobby and its domestic allies). To date, the interests and welfare of these two factions …
Continue reading “Journal: Pollard, USS Liberty, & The Big Truth”
Rattling the Cage: Our exclusive right to self-defense By LARRY DERFNER Oct 7, 2009 Virtually all of Israel is now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report, against any attempt to blame us over the war in Gaza. We’ve honed our message to a sharp point and, inspired by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s performance …
Continue reading “Journal: Chuck Spinney Flags Moral Clarity Israeli Style”
In keeping with our new-found commitment to focus on public intelligence and leave political reform to others, this commentary provides an overview of the political scene (including political commentary from journalists lacking any independence), and concludes that what is missing from our national dialog are integrity and public intelligence. First, the political “terrain” of ideological …
