The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Four ways the West got the Iran nuclear issue wrong For more than three decades, the United States and its European allies have committed one fundamental error after another. Four major failures of policymaking and intelligence represent the broad outlines of this systematic problem. LIST ONLY: 1. Denial of Iranian rights, followed by denial of …
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Palantir Raises More Money Sometimes it seems like Palantir is constantly enticing investors. Forbes reports, “Palantir Aiming to Raise $400 Million in New Round.” Writer Ryan Mac tells us that, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents, a planned round of additional funding could rake in that sum if all shares sell. Mac continues:
2014 ANSWERS Robert Steele to Richard Olivier of Findhorn on Leadership for the 21st Century • What do 21st century leaders need to know and who do they need to be? • How can we develop these capacities? • What, on a systemic level, is blocking the needed leadership evolution? • What is missing from …
Edited by Michael Miklancic and Jacqueline Brewer 4.0 out of 5 stars First Class on the Illicit Networks Not Legalized by US Congress, December 15, 2014 This is a first-class book on the convergence of many illicit networks that Congress has not legalized. A sure sign of the book’s very high value and inherent quality …
James Stavridis 5.0 out of 5 stars In Ike’s mold — a future Secretary of Defense or State or both if we are lucky…, December 11, 2014 This is three books in one, and none of them do justice to the author, who is easily considered by my naval officer colleagues to be a person …
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20 key findings about CIA interrogations Almost 13 years after the CIA established secret prisons to hold and interrogate detainees, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the CIA’s programs listing 20 key findings. Click a statement below for a summary of the findings: 1 “not an effective means of acquiring intelligence” 2 “rested …
The CIA’s Operation Deception A Spurious Challenge to the Senate Torture Report CounterPunch, 10 December 2014 CIA director John Brennan, having failed to block the release of the Senate intelligence committee’s report on torture and abuse, is now abetting the efforts of former CIA directors and deputy directors to rebut the report’s conclusions that the …
