The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Guest Column — The War On The Poor — Jeffrey St. Clair & Alexander Cockburn The American poor are being driven into the ground. Not only is owning a home out of the question, but also the poor can’t even afford to rent. They lack the money for a damage deposit, and they lack the …
Thanks Jill for passing this over…..I will comment throughout. This is exactly where I got my feet wet and where the real power of the world resides and that is with the true owners of these instruments. All governments are loaned these and of course there is a history on that alone. benjamin July 2, …
There are some interesting and provocative materials on counter-insurgency and 4th generation warfare at two very different websites. The Fabius Maximus website has an essay, with many important links, titled “How I learned to stop worrying and love Fourth Generation War. We can win at this game.” Find it at http://fabiusmaximus.com/2013/09/18/4gw-insurgency-55320/. George Kenny’s very different and diverse …
This superb piece by Andrew Bacevich (Colonel US Army Ret.) is one the best portraits of what is wrong with self-important warmongering commentariat in the mainstream media: Track records count for nothing in the cozy salons of Versailles on the Potomac. SUNDAY, SEP 15, 2013 3:30 PM UTC David Brooks is constantly wrong Takes a …
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CIA Responsible For Labeling Honest Research Into Finding the Truth As “Conspiracy Theories” Boy does this article by Foster Gamble fit on this blogsite. For more than 40 years anyone attempting to find out the truth about anything that the “controllers” wanted to keep secret, was labeled a “conspiracy theorist”. Of course, then, propaganda was used …
A Violent Non-State Actors Reading List SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS 1 COMMENT In the introduction to her edited volume Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics, Klejda Mulaj notes that, while political science scholarship has extensively examined non-state actors (most notably those whose activities are primarily economic), violent non-state actors (VNSAs) “have only recently received sustained interest amongst academic and policy circles.” …
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The “Internet of Things” Requires New Thinking on Data In the world of tech where buzzwords come and go faster than you can say “synergy”, the “Internet of Things” is a bit of an oddity. It is an old concept (first coined in 1999) used to describe a futuristic world where everyday objects—from toasters to …
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