The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
For the record. Bloomberg Businessweek, February 18, 2013, Pg. 29 Charlie Rose Talks To Dick Cheney ‘The damage we’re doing to the Defense Department is enormous’ By Charlie Rose Someone said to me that, since you received your heart transplant last year, you’re a new man. That you’re mellow, less strident. Is this true? My …
UPDATED 18 Feb 2013 to add Reactions This is absolutely insane….ranks higher than a Bronze Star for Valor and cannot be awarded for serving in a combat zone. The Air Force pushed it in an effort to control the Drone and Cyber environment….Air Force would not let any comments from Afghanistan….payoff for the homage of …
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Original in Italian: Personal Letter to the Cardinal Secretary of State, 20 May 1982 Eminence. From the beginning of my pontificate, I felt that the Church’s dialogue with the cultures of our time was a vital field, in which the fate of the world in this part of the twentieth century. Indeed, there is a …
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Panetta’s Phony Doomsday Scenario Two Questions for the Next Secretary of Defense by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY CounterPunch, 11 February 2013 EXTRACT Figure 1 places Mr. Panetta’s claim into the context of past defense budgets. I have aggregated these budgets into the four year totals corresponding to each presidential term since Harry Truman’s second term began …
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PDF 21 pages: 2013 Army Strategic Planning Guidance Phi Beta Iota: All buzz words, no specifics. We are reminded that much of this is precisely what the US Marine Corps tried to tell the Secretary of Defense in 1992. The Services — and OSD — are once again 20 years behind the planning and …
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An excellently argued appeal to sanity. Time to Face the Truth About Iran by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett Agence Global, 07 Feb 2013 Fifty years ago, during the Cuban missile crisis, the United States faced what is frequently described as the defining challenge of the Cold War. Today, some argue that America is …
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If General Patraeus appears to commit suicide anytime soon, it will not have been suicide and the White House and the Department of Justice and the FBI will cover up the murder. Since the dual chain of command got away with the murder of JFK, the impunity with which they are willing to murder American …
