The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
China-Jordan: The Foreign Ministry also said that on Tuesday, Yang met with King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein on bilateral ties, the Syria situation and the Middle East peace process. King Abdullah II is paying a state visit to China from 15 to 18 September, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Comment: …
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My friend Bill Polk, a well-known historian with extensive experience in the Middle East and Central Asia and author of many books on these areas, has written a backgrounder on how to make sense out of the Syrian chemical weapons issue. He has given me permission to distribute it. Herewith is his most interesting primer on …
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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 …
From Bush to Obama: The Use and Misuse of Intelligence in Going to War In what NPR called “perhaps President Obama’s last best chance” to make his case for launching a war against Syria, the president tellingly didn’t make a single effort to present hard, compelling evidence to prove that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had …
Russia-Syria: The Russian military news agency, Interfax-AVN, reported two more Russian ships are heading to the Mediterranean Sea. The destroyer Nastoychivyy of the Baltic Fleet and the patrol combatant Smetlivy of the Black Sea Fleet will join the Russian Navy’s task force in Mediterranean in the next few days, Interfax-AVN was told at the Main …
American Generals Stand between War and Peace The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Martin Dempsey, backed by his Joint Staff generals and admirals, stood between a hasty and knee-jerk President Obama who was intent on launching a military attack on Syria and a tenuous peace in the Middle …
US spies missed signs of Aug. 21 Syrian WMD Strike By KIMBERLY DOZIER Associated Press, 4 September 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies did not detect the Syrian regime readying a massive chemical weapons attack in the days ahead of the strike, only piecing together what had happened after the fact, U.S. officials say. …
