Penguin: Saudi Arabia Definitively Behind Syrian Gas Attacks – Cancel Speech to UN General Assembly

Connecting the dots…. Saudi black op team behind Damascus chem weapons attack – diplomatic sources The August chemical weapons attack in the Syrian capital’s suburbs was done by a Saudi Arabian black operations team, Russian diplomatic sources have told a Russian news agency.   “Based on data from a number of sources a picture can …

Berto Jongman: Breaking the Cycle of Counterinsurgency

Breaking the Cycle of Counterinsurgency It’s time to relegate the bankrupt counterinsurgency doctrine into the “dustbin of history.” By Hannah Gurman and Jeremy Kuzmarov, October 3, 2013 Foreign Policy in Focus, 3 October 2013 This September marked a potential turning point in America’s long and seemingly bottomless appetite for war. The Obama administration made a …

Gregory Sinaisky: HIST 3 APR 2003 Detecting Disinformation, Without Radar [Truth Specific, Lies Vague]

Detecting disinformation, without radar By Gregory Sinaisky [Pseudonym] Asia Times, 3 April 2003 How to tell genuine reporting from an article manufactured to  produce the desired propaganda effect? The war in Iraq provides us plenty of interesting samples for a study of disinformation techniques. Take the article “Basra Shiites Stage Revolt, Attack Government Troops”, published …

Penguin: All US Military Precision Systems Subject to Jamming & Misdirection — Is This the Real Reason Elective Attack on Syria Was Called Off?

SPEAKING FREELY Lost Cruise fears save Obama on Syria By Gregory Sinaisky Asia Times, 3 October 2013 Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing. US President Barack Obama’s reversal on the bombing of Syria took the world …

Gordon Duff: Are the Mormons in Charge of America’s Drug Empire? Is NSA Part of Their Power Base?

America’s Drug Empire Narcotics: Business of Western wars “Heroin trafficking is the lubrication that keeps the wheels of Western politics moving as intended.”   It was only a week ago that the US government released Eric Harroun, a former soldier who had been fighting with foreign backed al-Qaeda terrorists and the CIA against the Assad …

Marcus Aurelius: SOF O-6 Sends – A World Where No One Listens to America

All following appears consistent with Dinesh DiSousa’s books and the film that came from them, “2016:  Obama’s America,” which assert that POTUS is a rampant anticolonialist whose principal objective is to reduce America to the status of a Third World nation rather than to facilitate the nations of the Third World to achieving levels of …

John Steiner: From Sanity Central on NSA and the Surveillance State

“The potential of the surveillance  state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984, (said Guardian Editor) Alan Rusbridger . ‘Orwell could never have imagined this concept of scooping up everything all the time’. The NSA stories were ‘clearly’ not about totalitarianism, but an infrastructure had been created that could be dangerous if it fell …