My Christmas holiday frequently includes a series of reunions with other former CIA people, often grouped by the overseas stations that we served in. This year the Istanbul gathering preceded Spain and the Rome Station ca. 1980 soon followed. Some of the retirees are...
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Congress Scares The People
by Philip Giraldi | Dec 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
Terrorism has become as all-American as apple pie. It is ingrained in our civic DNA, it fills our newspapers and is the backstory for every foreign policy discussion on talk radio and television. One might reasonably expect that American mothers might now cajole their...
Quitting Over Syria
by Philip Giraldi | Nov 15, 2013 | Featured Articles
The release of the White House “Government Assessment” on August 30, providing the purported evidence to support a bombing attack on Syria, defused a conflict with the intelligence community that had threatened to become public through the mass resignation of a...
Crying Wolf Over Iran
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 26, 2013 | Featured Articles
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to convince the audience in both the United States and Europe that new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is a "wolf in sheep’s clothing" intent on beguiling the west with empty promises while proceeding full...
Does Our Military Spending Really Make Us Better Off?
by Philip Giraldi | Oct 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
The ill-advised launching of a few barrages of cruise missiles at Syria, which was the White House’s fervent desire back in August could have cost as much as five billion dollars or so by the time it was all over, an act of war carried out just to establish the...
What's the Evidence Behind the Case for War?
by Philip Giraldi | Sep 10, 2013 | Featured Articles
If the arguments being presented by President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry for attacking Syria seem increasingly shrill and disjointed that might well be because a legitimate case cannot be made for going to war. The central argument—i.e., that punishing...
Boston Becomes Toxic
by Philip Giraldi | May 16, 2013 | The Liberty Report
A number of articles about the Boston terrorist attack that I have read recently reminded me that what is either kept out of the media or otherwise hidden is often more important than what actually appears. One was a feature article entitled “Ron Paul Slams Boston...
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