Berto Jongman: CIA’s Secret Torture Sites & the Competing CIA and DoD Drone Assassination Programs
07 Other Atrocities, 09 TerrorismREVEALED: The boom and bust of the CIA’s secret torture sites
The quality of debriefers and security officers being sent to the site was degenerating, while the information coming out of it was “mediocre or, I dare say, useless”.
Eight Papers on the Drone Programs of the USA
Taken together, the secret documents lead to the conclusion that Washington’s 14-year high-value targeting campaign suffers from an overreliance on signals intelligence, an apparently incalculable civilian toll, and — due to a preference for assassination rather than capture — an inability to extract potentially valuable intelligence from terror suspects. They also highlight the futility of the war in Afghanistan by showing how the U.S. has poured vast resources into killing local insurgents, in the process exacerbating the very threat the U.S. is seeking to confront.
Ray McGovern Outs Dutch Vassal State Report on MH-17, US Withholding of Precise Evidence Supporting Russian Claims UPDATE 3: NYT Full of Shit
06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call, Peace IntelligenceChuck Spinney & Gareth Porter: US to Blame for Rise of Islamic State and Syria Disaster UPDATE 1: WikiLeaks Documents US Perfidy
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime
Below is a very important report describing how a string of US covert operations reaching back to the 1980s has created the bloody shambles in Iraq, Syria and the emergence of ISIS.*
The author, Gareth Porter, is one of the finest investigative reporters now operating in the United States. Most importantly, IMO, Porter ends by connecting these covert operations to the money flowing through the political-economy of Military-Industrial-
Chuck Spinney: Syria as Root for WWIII UPDATE Mike Whitney on Putin Winning
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Officers Call
A General Summing Up of the West’s March to Folly in Syria
EXTRACT
These early failures by the German and American leaderships led to ever more costly missteps and a loss of purpose as the respective leaders ‘dug in' to defend their mistakes. To make matters worse, some domestic interests — e.g., the Krupp in Germany and the MICC in the US — thrived on the carnage and had an economic interest in its continuation. And so, in very different circumstances, each conflict acquired a life of its own.
UPDATE 1: Putin’s “Endgame” in Syria
Complete essay and three links below the fold.
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JZ Liszkiewicz: Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda and Winning
07 Other AtrocitiesIn her new book, the nutrition expert lays bare the soda industry’s powerful and harmful tactics.
Nestle thoroughly expounds on the soda industry’s marketing and corporate social responsibility tactics. She also details the way it is increasing focus on the developing world, marketing to children, targeting people of color, recruiting public health leaders, making political campaign contributions, creating front groups, and strategically funding health organizations. No stone is left unturned.
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Berto Jongman: School Shootings Predicted in 1992 as Deliberate Gun Control Covert Action Campaign
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Assassinated Author Predicted Rise In School Shootings In 1991 Book
Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a process called Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the anti-gun lobby. This plan is well under way, and so far is working perfectly. The middle class is begging the government to do away with the 2nd Amendment.”
