NIGHTWATCH: Pakistan to US/CIA – Stop the Drones or We Will + Drone Operator on Video – “I felt like a sociopath”

Pakistan: In response to two US drone attacks since taking his oath of office last week, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued an official statement after his first cabinet meeting. “The policy of protesting against drone strikes for public consumption, while working behind the scenes to make them happen, is not on.” He told the cabinet …

Mongoose: Prism the Bulk of President’s Daily Brief?

U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program Washington Post, 6 June 2013 VIDEO Barton Gellman on Source and Consequences EXTRACT Government officials and the document itself made clear that the NSA regarded the identities of its private partners as PRISM’s most sensitive secret, fearing that the companies would …

Owl: David McGraw State of the Nation State of the People

This is the latest extended piece by David DeGraw. I: Unprecedented Wealth II: Debt Slavery III: Mental Slavery – Conditioned Consciousness IV: The Spectrum of Thinkable Thought V: Behaviorism & Assembly Line Intelligentsia VI: Totalitarian Minds Inside the All-Consuming Cult VII: Free Your Mind VIII: Cyberspace Underground Railroad “For the past 35 years, with technological …

SchwartzReport: US Elective Invasion & Occupation of Iraq: Gift to China (and Iran),. Biggest Blunder Ever, Biggest War Crime in Modern History

You and I, thanks to Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Daniel Pipes, and a number of other lesser neocons, and an almost fatally incurious President, spent over a TRILLION dollars of public money, and squandered the lives of tens of thousands of young Americans who were killed, wounded, or permanently maimed, in order to …

Mini-Me: War Crimes as US Strategy, Policy, Operational Campaign, & Centerpiece for Tactics

Huh? Weekend Edition May 31-Jun 02, 2013 War Crimes as Policy The CIA: Keepers of the Hit Lists by DOUGLAS VALENTINE and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES In February the Guardian and BBC Arabic unveiled a documentary exploring the role of retired Colonel James Steele in the recruitment, training and initial deployments of the CIA advised and …

Eagle: Will Crushing Student Loans and Worthless College Degrees Politicize the Millennial Generation?

Will Crushing Student Loans and Worthless College Degrees Politicize the Millennial Generation?   (May 31, 2013) The existing social and financial order is crumbling because it is unsustainable on multiple levels. The central state is not the Millennials’ friend, it is their oppressor.No generation of young people is ever politicized by hunger in distant lands …

Paul Craig Roberts: The Social Cost of (Predatory) Capitalism — What Prostituted Economists Will Not Address

The Social Cost of (Predatory) Capitalism When I was a graduate student in economics, the social cost of capitalism was a big issue in economic theory. Since those decades ago, the social costs of capitalism have exploded, but the issue seems no longer to trouble the economics profession. Social costs are costs of production that …