Chuck Spinney: Iraq Army Losing North, Partition Being Discussed

The author of the attached report, Patrick Cockburn, is one of very best reporters reporting on the Middle East, and perhaps the most knowledgeable on Iraq.  This is a very important report, in my opinion. Partition could really have a destabilizing influence on the entire Arab region, but especially Syria, as well as non-Arab Turkey. …

Review (Guest): The Net Delusion – The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

Evgeny Morozov 5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Recycling and Internet-Centrism, a tale of Cyber-Utopia Gone Really Wrong, November 30, 2012 Abhinav Agarwal (Bangalore, India) Dunks a much needed, well-reasoned, and well-researched bucket of cold-water over “Internet-centrists” and “cyber-utopians” (cyber-utopianism is a “naïve belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication”), and assembles together an …

Berto Jongman: Julian Asange on Bush Jr. Library, Bradley Manning Trial

Interview: Julian Assange on George Bush’s Library and Bradley Manning’s Trial Medea Banjamin OpEdNews.com, 25 April 2013 I had an opportunity to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been granted political asylum since June 2012. Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden over sex allegations, although he …

Jim Dean: Could It Be? Osama Bin Laden’s Son (and Jihad Heir) in USA on a Presidential Over-Ride?

Update 12:55 pm: We have new information that Al-Harbi could not have been back doored into the US without presidential authority. Bypassing a 3-B terrorist watch status is not something an ICE supervisor could have initialed through. We know someone who sponsored an East European nursing student for a visa. The cost? Posting a $1 …

Patrick Meier: Web App Tracks Breaking News

Web App Tracks Breaking News Using Wikipedia Edits A colleague of mine at Google recently shared a new and very interesting Web App that tracks breaking news events by monitoring Wikipedia edits in real-time. The App, Wikipedia Live Monitor, alerts users to breaking news based on the frequency of edits to certain articles. Almost every significant news event …

Gordon Duff: Documented Words of Zbigniew Brzezinski on US Funding of Muslim Extremism in Afghanistan to LURE the Soviets In…..[Fast Forward to Chechnya]

The CIA’s “Founding” of Al Qaeda Documented The Muslim Terrorist Apparatus was Created by US Intelligence as a Geopolitical Weapon Le Nouvel Observateur’s Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski Originally published 15-21 January 1998 Translated by Jean Martineau (Editor’s Note:  The following article and interview have been suppressed by Google, now a “black-ops” contractor.  The background on US …