The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Economist on Democracy in America I’M HAVING trouble writing about the GOP effort to reach a compromise over whether to cut $100 billion out of the 2011 budget, or just $50-60 billion. My problem is that I can’t really write about the advantages or disadvantages of one or another version of the cuts when …
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A never ending goat rope! What should the CIA do in Egypt? By Jeff Stein The ghost of the 1979 Iranian revolution is very much on the minds of veteran intelligence officials as Egypt explodes in street protests. Most historians agree that the CIA was largely in the dark when anti-American students, radical Islamists and …
Watching Channel 4 and seeing President Barack Obama speak of his conversation with the Egyptian President, Penguin could not help but be shocked when Obama had the audicity to claim, with a straight face and no shame, that he had called on the Egyptian president to “give meaning to his words” in promising democracy and …
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Jesus. Now I understand a remark made twenty some years ago by an angry senior Mexican scientist who essentially accused the US of provoking a horrific hurricane that caused terrible damage in Mexico. He added: “And you [the US] know exactly what I mean.” You can tell the men from the boys by the cost …
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Army’s “Spiritual Fitness” Test Comes Under Fire Jason Leopold TruthOut Wednesday 05 January 2011 Test Was Designed by Psychologist Who Inspired CIA’s Torture Program An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration’s torture program is under fire by civil rights groups …
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Flawed projects prove costly for Afghanistan, U.S. Contractor leaves Afghan police stations half-complete U.S. hires firms with questionable pasts for Afghan jobs Factory, coal mine show connections matter most in Afghan business Phi Beta Iota: Our political, policy, and military leaders simply do not know what they do not know. Assuming–desiring–that they have the best …
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Imperial by Design The National Interest From the Jan-Feb 2011 issue John J. Mearsheimer December 16, 2010 Summary: The author discusses the intellectual but not the ethical underpinings of the failure of US foreign policy and national security since the first Clinton Administration. He touches on alternative policies such as isolationalism, offshore balancing, selective engagement, …
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