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The US military has lost around 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones since the US and Israel launched the war against Iran on February 28, CBS News has reported, citing unnamed US officials. MQ-9 Reapers cost at least $30 million each, meaning the US has lost at least $720 million worth of drones. Officials told CBS that […]

As part of the US campaign to engineer a regime change in Iran, the US military and intelligence community are using Operational Preparation of the Environmnet aka OPE. OPE is defined in joint publications (e.g., JP 3-05 Special Operations) as non-intelligence activities conducted prior to or in preparation for potential military operations to set conditions […]

Enablers Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There’s an obvious growing failure at the center of modern markets that, as a former short seller, has become beyond obvious to me over the years. It isn’t just fraud or aggressive accounting. It’s the ecosystem that allows both to thrive: financial media that won’t press, and a sell side that won’t risk upsetting management teams they depend on for access. We’ve seen this movie before. Enron did not implode because there were no warning signs. It imploded because the warning signs were inconvenient. There were whistleblowers. There...