The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CHINA has blocked the word “Egypt” from the country’s wildly popular Twitter-like service, while coverage of the political turmoil has been tightly restricted in state media. China’s ruling Communist Party is sensitive to any potential source of social unrest. A search for “Egypt” on the Sina microblogging service brings up a message saying, “According to …
Sooner than you thought? I would also suggest that Karzai is on shaky ground unless he figures out a way to get out of his Parliament crisis…..the Pashtu do not go for technology the way the Hazara and Tajiks do…… Waves of Unrest Spread to Yemen, Shaking a Region Thousands of protesters on Thursday took …
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Interesting reading…. Middle East & North Africa: Carthage under Siege By Feriel Bouhafa , January 26, 2011 Foreign Policy in Focus The success of a throng of Tunisian protesters who toppled Ben Ali, the seemingly unshakable dictator, caught the world off guard. Analysts have rushed to make sense of Tunisia’s unforeseen popular revolt. The media …
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Unbelievable….we cannot make this stuff up! U.S. intelligence agencies ‘sharing too much’ January 20, 2011 – 8:10am House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in his office. (WTOP Photo/J.J. Green) J.J. Green, wtop.com WASHINGTON – Intelligence agencies may be ordered to limit the information they share. “When you look at information sharing, I think we …
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David Ignatius, Washington Post 26 January 2011 Ike was right: Defense spending must be cut Core paragraph: President Obama has the right team in place to begin this strategic downsizing of the defense budget. Gates has been an outspoken advocate of cutting programs we can’t afford, and he has strong backing from Adm. Mike Mullen …
Interesting, but also fails to mention we do not train our analysts on the basics, know your enemy……we are so focused on technology we forget that the basics are still the best way to view the situation….. When military investigators looked into an attack by American helicopters last February that left 23 Afghan civilians dead, …
More wasted money….. Program to modernize Afghan justice system yields little so far MORE FROM MCCLATCHY McClatchy’s November investigation of contracting in Afghanistan Military bans two U.S. firms from Afghan contracting Contractor Louis Berger settles in Afghan overbilling probe Follow Afghanistan developments at McClatchy’s Checkpoint Kabul See Also: Reference: Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review Graphic: …
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