The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CIA’s Deadly Cultural Ignorance Fear of officers “going native” keeps our intelligence agencies ill-informed about Somalia, Syria, and other hotspots. When the British ran an empire they did it the right way, if one is into imperial management. They created an entire bureaucracy, the Colonial Service, which was manned by officers who were expected to …
The Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) For a Policy Roundtable Discussion & Rooftop Reception on Analyzing the Russia-Syria Alliance: Is Putin’s defense of Al-Assad all bark — or bite? A senior level expert panel discusses implications for policy makers Wednesday, September 25, 2013 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Kerry Was Wrong Turkish prosecutor indicts six jihadists for alleged attempts to acquire chemicals with intent to produce sarin The Turkish Republican Prosecutor in Adana has issued a 132-page indictment, alleging that six members of the al-Qaeda-aligned al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham – one Syrian and five Turks – tried to acquire chemicals with the …
NEW IN BOLD 4th Media: AP Sources: CIA Delivering Light Weapons to Syria 4th Media: Preempting The Next Round of Lies Against Syria Berto Jongman: 10,000 Foreign Fighters in Syria Berto Jongman: Agreement on Destruction of Syrian CW Berto Jongman: Brown Moses on Chemical Munitions Berto Jongman: Developments on the Ground in Syria Berto Jongman: FBI files …
Who Benefits From America’s State of Perpetual War? Putin Lectures Obama by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, COUNTERPUNCH, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 That our Noble Peace Prize winning President and the Congress needed a rational lecture [also attached below] on the need for a little common sense in foreign policy, from a graduate of the KGB, says a …
Our Newfound Fear of Risk We’re afraid of risk. It’s a normal part of life, but we’re increasingly unwilling to accept it at any level. So we turn to technology to protect us. The problem is that technological security measures aren’t free. They cost money, of course, but they cost other things as well. They …
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Below is a thoughtful essay by Ambassador Chas Freeman. He describes how the United States has painted itself into a corner on the Syrian Question. Many see this problem in terms of President Obama’s missteps, but Freeman shows it goes far beyond one man’s grand-strategic foibles. While Freeman does not express the evolution of grand …
