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Inside Job (Crisis By Consensus series Part IV)
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 2:56 pm | Jeff Gates
A popular documentary, Inside Job, captured kudos at the 2010 Academy Awards. Its hard-hitting analysis marked a milestone among filmmakers for shining light in the dark corners of Wall Street. Writer, producer and director Charles Ferguson provided ... More >>
Induced Fraud (Crisis by Consensus Series Part III)
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 2:50 pm | Jeff Gates
Even as the Berlin Wall was being reduced to rubble, the forces that have since dismantled the US economy were gaining power. Driven by the all-pervasive force of a consensus mindset, US firms embraced financial returns as their sole metric of success. More >>
Crisis by Consensus Part II
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 2:47 pm | Jeff Gates
Those old enough to remember the promise of a post-Cold War peace dividend also recall how we segued seamlessly from a global Cold War to a global War on Terrorism. More >>
Crisis by consensus
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 2:44 pm | Jeff Gates
Greece is in crisis because it has too much debt. The US is in crisis because it needs to issue more debt. The debt-hobbled economies of Europe are known as the PIGS: Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain. Their fiscal health may determine the future ... More >>
The U.S.-Israeli Train Wreck
Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 1:17 pm | Jeff Gates
President Obama hopes to head off a train wreck in September at the U.N. General Assembly. That’s when member nations plan to press for an independent Palestine. The Israel lobby is furious. More >>
Is Pakistan Being Cast as the Next Plausible Evil Doer?
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 12:00 pm | Jeff Gates
Conspiracy theorists assure us that Osama bin Laden was killed in December 2001 and his body put on ice in—of course—an undisclosed location. If the recent killing of bin Laden was a lie, who were the liars? All 79 members of SEAL Team 6, the Joint ... More >>
A Commonsense Solar Defense
Thursday, 30 December 2010, 1:15 pm | Jeff Gates
A Commonsense Solar Defense Three days before Christmas, the U.S. Congress authorized $725 billion in defense spending for 2011. Adjusted for inflation, that’s the most since 1945, the last year of World War II. More >>
America's Terrorist Ally
Friday, 11 December 2009, 2:21 pm | Jeff Gates
Response of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when asked on September 11, 2001 what the attacks meant for U.S.-Israeli relations. Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical models to anticipate and shape outcomes with staged provocations. ... More >>
Protecting Those Who Deceived the U.S.
Monday, 16 November 2009, 12:46 pm | Jeff Gates
Was Fort Hood really the target of a terrorist attack? The first clue to the real culprit emerged when Senator Joe Lieberman sought to blame this mass murder on the U.S. military. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, he promised ... More >>
Today’s Ancient Warfare: Facts vs. Beliefs
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 1:14 pm | Jeff Gates
In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon. More >>
Israel’s Role in the Destabilization of Pakistan?
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 12:55 pm | Jeff Gates
When waging war “by way of deception,” the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe. Thus the force-multiplier effect when staged ... More >>
How Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal endangers Us All
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 11:40 am | Jeff Gates
On September 24th, U.S. President Barack Obama will preside over a U.N. Security Council session on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. In March 2010, Moscow will host a Global Nuclear Summit that the U.S. has agreed to attend. More >>