The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Written by an Israeli activist. Published on Friday, July 12, 2013 by Al Jazeera Israel’s ‘Indigenous Invaders’ How Israel justifies the imminent relocation of thousands of Palestinian Bedouin by characterizing them as invaders. by Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini On June 24th the “Prawer Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev” passed …
It has been a pleasure for me to support some of the bright minds at NATO ACT (Atlantic Command Transformation, the old SACLANT), and it has also incentivized me to familiarize myself with where NATO is today and where it might go in the future.[1] As one who has decades of experience with the US …
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Empathy Note #2: Imagining Real National Security – Empathy versus Empire We keep wondering: ‘Why do they hate us?’ Well, maybe some people are mad because we are doing things that we would regard as unjustified and heinous acts of war if anyone dared to do them to us. — Stephen M. Walt in Foreign …
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ROBERT STEELE: I have elected to answer this personally. It may well be the most fundamental question this web site has received in that any corruption in the answer to this question assures the failure of any strategy, policy, acquisition, or operation that is spawned from an inherently corrupt — a deliberately corrupt — refusal …
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No Clipping These Wings By David Ignatius Washingtonpost.com, July 5, 2013 For an illustration of why the federal government has become so unmanageable, consider the Air Force’s attempt last year to cut its budget by retiring unneeded warplanes. This sensible policy ran into a shredder — largely because of the political clout of the Air …
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The attached essay describes the natural gas bonanza in the Eastern Mediterranean is packed with facts, and it will give you a headache reading it, but it is very important and I recommend it to your attention. Chuck Spinney Bastia, Corsica Is the US Playing With Gas in Syria? Evan Taylor, Counterpunch, 2013-06-28 4:59 …
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There are (almost) as many cell phone subscriptions as people By Tyler Falk | July 2, 2013 Quartz dug up this graph from a new U.N. report showing the world’s rapid adoption of cell phones. Yes, you’re seeing that right, there are almost as many cell phone subscriptions as there are people. It’s an astounding …
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