The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Herewith is Stephen Walt’s excellent critique of US grand strategy in the Middle East since 1990. My only comment is that he omits the pernicious influences of the arrogance that emerged from our misinterpretation of our “victory” in the Cold War and does not discuss the closely related emergence of Mad Madeline’s nutty theory of …
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Important note to readers: This differs from the published version. I made one really dumb error (bold below) and corrected a few typos and added some hotlinks to aid referencing. I apologize for my inexcusable mistake. Chuck Spinney July 5, 2011 Perpetual Motion Why the War Machine Keeps on Running By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, …
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The Narrative Battle & Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century By John Marke Warfare in the 21st century is about the battle for the mind – it is about ideas and perceptions. Understanding how people make sense of what’s happening around them, i.e., socially constructed reality is a key element of this dynamic. Military strategists, at …
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Washington’s war on Chavez By Stephen Lendman, Tehran Times, May 30, 2011 Since George W. Bush took office in January 2001, efforts to oust Hugo Chavez failed three times. . . . . . . Nonetheless, disruptive activities continue, including malicious propaganda, CIA subversion, funding opposition forces, sanctions, and militarizing the region, notably in Colombia …
James Petras TImely, Deep Historical Insights, Some Gaps & Biases, May 29, 2011 I would normally wait but in the absence of any reviews want to just praise this book as timely, with deep historical insights, and a few gaps and biases as well as no index, the latter almost always causes me to remove …
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Sacrificial Crowds and Radical Power: A Meditation by Justin Rogers-Cooper, 19 May 2011 Advocate (CUNY Graduate Center) In early January the BBC reported that Mohammad Bouazazi, a Tunisian college graduate who illegally sold fruits and vegetables in Sidi Bouzid, had died from his self-inflicted burns. He had set himself on fire by dousing his body with petrol …
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The head of the U.S. State Department’s Latin American and Caribbean will resign this summer. Arturo Valenzuela announced he will leave his post of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs to return to Georgetown University, where he taught before his appointment by Barack Obama in 2009. The United States currently doesn’t have ambassadors …
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