The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Below is Professor Michael Brenner’s take on this question. AMERICA’s MOBY DICK Michael Brenner University of Pittsburg, 28 July 2013 Captain Ahab’s obsessive hunt for Moby Dick was driven by the thirst for revenge. The great white whale had maimed Ahab – in soul as well as body. Ahab was consumed by the passion to …
FYI … some of this attached NYT report seems to have been sourced in part on the “meeting at the Aspen Inst., reported by Max Blumenthal in Alternet (See “Shocking ‘Extermination’ Fantasies By the People Running America’s Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit”), which I distributed earlier this week. Note how the information in …
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What kind of people are running American? Here are some insights. Shocking ‘Extermination’ Fantasies By the People Running America’s Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit Security Forum participants expressed total confidence in American empire, but could not contain their panic at the mention of Snowden. AlterNet / By Max Blumenthal, July 25, 2013 Seated …
The attached essay describes the natural gas bonanza in the Eastern Mediterranean is packed with facts, and it will give you a headache reading it, but it is very important and I recommend it to your attention. Chuck Spinney Bastia, Corsica Is the US Playing With Gas in Syria? Evan Taylor, Counterpunch, 2013-06-28 4:59 …
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Patrick Cockburn has written a very important essay on Syria in the London Review of Books (attached below). The essay is aptly titled but has only a few oblique, albeit important, references to Sykes – Picot Agreement, a document some readers may not familiar with. Let’s begin with a little background. The Sykes-Picot agreement (it …
It is a brutal fact that no country benefited more from war during in the 2oth Century than the United States. World War I enriched and invigorated the US economy, and the self destruction of the 19th Century European state system left the US as the world’s mightiest industrial power. World War II ended the …
I visited Levantine Syria [1] for three memorable days in 2008 and was struck by the welcoming, friendly nature of the Syrian people, their effusive pride in Syria’s multicultural heritage, and a pervasive atmosphere of optimism. I had the impression Syria was emerging from the darkness of the Hafez Assad dictatorship. To be sure, his …
