The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
CS: The United States may be on the cusp of a double dip recession and the government (the President and Congress) appears to be on the verge of making the same mistake Franklin Roosevelt made in 1937 — namely moving to reduce the federal deficit before the recovery was locked into place. Most historians now …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney Sends: From McCrystal to Turkey to Unemployment”
Chapter and Verse But No Footnotes–a Cornerstone Read June 17, 2010 Jeffrey St. Clair I come late to this book, published in 2005 and consisting of well-organized Op-Eds published in CounterPunch from 2000-2005. My review is primarily for my own benefit (my notes) and those who follow my reviews of non-fiction at Phi Beta …
Court document: Alharamain versus National Security Administration (From Secrecy News) WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE OF CHARITY RULED UNLAWFUL Warrantless surveillance of an Islamic charity in Oregon in 2004 violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a court ruled (pdf) on March 31. In the culmination of a four-year lawsuit, Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of …
Dot, Dot, Dot . . . March 10, 2010 In his new book The Watchers, (Penguin Press, 2010), Shane Harris chronicles what he calls “the rise of America’s surveillance state,” a process he’s been following since he was a reporter and technology editor at Government Executive from 2001 to 2005. It’s a story with all …
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Greed Pricing, Useful Content, March 8, 2010 Completed 30 August 2010 Joseph W. Dellapenna (Editor), Joyeeta Gupta (Editor) I was forced to buy this book as part of a twelve book review for an international organization, and even though it was a business expense, this kind of greed pricing makes me urge all authors to …
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FIVE STARS The People We Pay to Look Over Our Shoulders By ERIC LICHTBLAU By Shane Harris At this very moment analysts at the National Security Agency some 30 miles north of the White House are monitoring countless flashpoints of data — cellphone calls to “hot” numbers, an e-mail message on a suspicious server, an …
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From A Retired Special Forces Sgt Major: To All, I just returned from Haiti with Hebler. We flew in at 3 AM Sunday to the scene of such incredible destruction on one side, and enormous ineptitude and criminal neglect on the other. Port o Prince is in ruins. The rest of the country is fairly …
