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‘Which path to Persia: Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran’ by the Brookings Institute is reminisent of 'Catastrophic Terrorism: Imagining the Transformative Event'
by 9/11 Commission executive Philip Zelikow.
And don't forget about the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty which was a terror event meant to be blamed on Egypt and to start a war.
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The Brookings Institure allow themselves the luxury of speculating openly about a possible ‘provocation’ to escalate things to the point of armed conflict.
‘Something on the order of an Iranian-backed 9/11, in which the plane wore Iranian markings and Tehran boasted about its sponsorship.(…). The entire question of “options” becomes irrelevant at that point: what American president could refrain from an invasion after the Iranians had just killed several thousand American civilians in an attack in the United States itself?‘‘Which path to Persia: Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran’ by... more
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Janet Napalitano doesn't inspire any confidence in her bloated bureaucracy's ability, or possibly lack-there-of to protect the nation's most critical infrastructure. Perhaps she is in the wrong line of work.
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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano discusses the importance of bilateral and multilateral security efforts with the Council on Foreign Relation's (CFR) James M. Lindsay, detailing some of her department's most recent international collaborations in Europe and the Middle East.
"The things we know about don't keep me up at night as much as the things that are the unknown," Napolitano said, identifying themost concerning security threats as "the safety of travels, the security of cargo moving around the world, the ability to spot potential terrorists early before they can be successful, the ability to respond to a terrorist attack, and then the whole area of the protection of cyberspace."Janet Napalitano doesn't inspire any confidence in her bloated bureaucracy's... more
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A think tank has concluded that dentists trained at the expense of taxpayers should spend half their time with NHS patients.A think tank has concluded that dentists trained at the expense of taxpayers should... more
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Ideas into Action Since 1963
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Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin founded the Institute in 1963. Reeling from the shock of the Cuban Missile crisis and wary of the looming disaster in Vietnam, they saw their country losing its way, increasingly unable to give human needs priority over an insatiable and permanent national security state. The nation’s capital needed an independent source of policy alternatives.
As Washington’s first progressive multi-issue “think tank,” IPS has served as a policy and research resource for visionary social justice movements for four decades: from the anti-war and civil rights movements in the 1960’s to the peace and global justice movements of the last decade.
In September 1976, the Institute’s destiny became irrevocably linked with the international human rights struggle when agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet murdered two IPS colleagues on Embassy Row. Since then, our annual Letelier-Moffitt human rights awards ceremony has celebrated heroes of human rights in the U.S and Latin America.
A Better World: Peace, Justice, and a Sustainable EnvironmentIdeas into Action Since 1963
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Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin... more
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