The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a mapping of social media, news reports and official situation reports from within Libya and along the …
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Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, Essay on Convergence versus Divergence Violence
Bahrain, Libya, and related reactions. Phi Beta Iota: The ineptitude of the Western governments will go down in history. What started as a public uprising against dictators, with Muslim and Christian, Sunni and Shi’ite standing shoulder to shoulder, has now been flipped to military interim governments and a surge of Iranian proxies against Sunni allies …
Middle East 11 March general warning; Bahrain, Gulf Cooperation Council, Saudi Arabia, US-Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt (multiple), Libya, Libya-Netherlands, Benghazi Council-France; Warning doctrine and lessons. Phi Beta Iota: The US Government appears to be lacking across the spectrum–no deep current knowledge and no contextual understanding of the difference between young digital natives and older dignity …
Senator: Remarks about Libya ‘should be the final straw’ for Clapper (CNN) Clapper lambastes Russia; wait, isn’t Joe Biden in Russia? (The Hill) U.S. Intelligence Chief Says Qaddafi Has Edge in Conflict (NYT) US should keep up Lebanon military aid: intel chief (AFP) Losing Libya III (PajamasMedia) Phi Beta Iota: We used to admire Jim …
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Egypt, Libya, Benghazi Council-Qatar, Morocco (the third way).
Sudan, Libya extended commentaries
