The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Singularity of Fools A special report from the utopian future. David Rieff Foreign Policy, May/June 2013 EXTRACT Even comparative moderates in the futurological sweepstakes tend to swoon when the subject is the pace of technology-led change. Ethan Zuckerman, director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, argues in his new book, Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in …
This appears spot-on. I’ve had some one-on-one experience with OSD CAPE and they appear to be true non-patriots whose sole function is to cut dollars. They don’t seem to have a clue as to what the business of defending America is all about. They particularly oppose the concept of redundancy. In our huge bay, we …
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A Commander Seeks To Chart A New Path For Special Operations By Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker New York Times, May 2, 2013 WASHINGTON – Not long after Adm. William H. McRaven led the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, he was put in charge of the nation’s entire contingent of Special Operations forces, and …
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While there is little that is new in the attached article by Philip Giraldi; it is nevertheless very important and well worth reading. Giraldi has produced an excellent summary of the truly poisonous influences on US foreign and defense policies, a group more accurately described by the collective modifier neo-conmen. He describes how the influence of this movement’s …
In the attached essay, my very good friend Mike Lofgren raises the question of whether defense spending is good for the economy. This is a current issue because the threat of defense budget reduction is being countered by arguments asserting that these reductions will push the economy into recession. More generally, the political addiction to …
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An important question — the USA no longer does strategic intelligence and it has never done Whole of Government operational or tactical intelligence. The $60B secret world is largely worthless at all four levels of analysis: STRATEGIC: Next Generation near, 100 years our far OPERATIONAL: Whole of Government regional and threat/topic based campaign plans, harmonized …
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Huh? American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus The American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (formerly the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya) is a Freedom House initiative that bills itself as the ”only private, nongovernmental organization in North America exclusively dedicated to promoting the peaceful resolution of the Russo-Chechen war.”[1] According to Freedom …
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