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Journal: Integrity, Afghanistan, & The White House

SMALL WARS JOURNAL This Week at War: America’s Last Counterinsurgent? McChrystal report unwittingly slays counterinsurgency doctrine September 25, 2009 Robert Haddock This summer the U.S. government has faced a deteriorating crisis in Afghanistan. Such crises tend to force policymakers to face up to the facile assumptions they have previously made. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s report to …

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Journal: CIA Ramps Up In Afghanistan While Public Intelligence About Empire as Usual Hard to Find

CIA expanding presence in Afghanistan: report AFP  Sat Sep 19 . . . . . . . .The Central Intelligence Agency is deploying teams of spies, analysts and paramilitary operatives on top of the nearly 700 employees it already has in the war-torn country in parallel with a military expansion that will see 68,000 US troops in …

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CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 17 September 2009

Hot Topics AA:  New tape from al-Qaeda leader bin Laden released 09/14/09 AE: TALON Laser-Guided Rocket Team completes first guided test flights 09/14/09 AE: UAE confession was ‘under duress’ 09/14/09 AF:  Afghanistan’s Other Front 09/16/09 AF:  Al Qaeda calls for foreign civilian kidnappings in Afghanistan 09/16/09 EG: Egypt Defends Killing of Migrants Trying to Cross …

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Journal: Race, Class, Money & Truth

In keeping with our new-found commitment to focus on public intelligence and leave political reform to others, this commentary provides an overview  of the political scene (including political commentary from journalists lacking any independence), and concludes that what is missing from our national dialog are integrity and public intelligence. First, the political “terrain” of ideological …

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Review: An Enemy of the State–The Life of Murray N. Rothbard

Gfited Author Summarizes Gifted Libertarian Mind Justin Raimondo September 8, 2009 I was so impressed by the AUTHOR of this book and the manner in which he so ably presented in summary form the very complex economic, philosophical, and consequently political reflections of Murray Rothbard that I immediately looked for “About the Author” and did …

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Journal: Obama Fires the One Authentic Person on His Team

Van Jones is authentic.  He was fired as a convenience by the white-half of Barack Obama, the half that is slicker than goose shit on a hot day.  The black half of Obama, the authentic half that “would no more renounce Reverend Wright than my own mother,” that half has been bought off and silenced.