The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I am working on MOAS.EU 59 million people are considered displaced. Lot of people. Our new ship arrives in the Aegean on the 18th Europe may turn its back on refugees this winter. But our rescuers won’t
There is a need to establish a truthful narrative, background and facts. Below is antithetical to all that. Fraud and Folly in Afghanistan The runoff round of the Afghan presidential election on June 14 was massively rigged, and the ensuing election audit was “unsatisfactory,” a result of Afghan government-orchestrated fraud on a scale exceeding two …
Finding Bergdahl Inside the Search for the Last Prisoner of America’s Longest War VICE, 21 July 2014 PART 1 EXTRACTS: The next intercepts from the elated kidnappers, using their CDMA or RUIM phone while still inside the vehicle, provided the first real piece of evidence on how Bergdahl was grabbed: “We were attacking the post. He …
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In the controversy and protesting stirred up by Abdullah, what is missing is a calm review of today’s political landscape in Afghanistan. Javid Ahmad a Program Coordinator for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Ahmad Hemmat, a D.C.-based researcher and advisor to the chairman of International Energy Partnerships makes some …
Finally an intelligent article on the election The South Asia Channel Ashraf Ghani’s Secret to Success Javid Ahmad & Ahmad Hemmat Foreign Policy 1 July 2014 Full Text Online Below the Fold (Emphasis Added)
Phi Beta Iota: RYP wrote this in part to react to Abdullah’s cavalier rejection of the Iraq scenario playing out today, for Afghanistan. His over-all point is that both candidates — Abdullah and Ghani — have pluses and minuses that voters and donors must consider BUT that there is only one clean candidate capable of …
Given how Afghans feel about Pakistan, this endorsement will probably have the opposite effect and reinforce Ghani’s bid. UPDATE: Just in from Telegraph on 11 June: Economist may lead Afghanistan after forming alliance with warlord in presidential elections ORIGINAL POST: Afghan Election: Endorsement From Pakistan’s Ex-Spy Chief Causes Stir Fred Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, …
