Patrick Cockburn: Saudi Arabia Funds Terrorism & Mass Murder — USG Silent & Therefore Complicit [While Also Approving $4B to “Train & Equip” Saudi National Guard]

Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis World View: Everyone knows where al-Qa’ida gets its money, but while the violence is sectarian, the West does nothing Patrick Cockburn The Independent, Sunday 8 December 2013 Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni …

Berto Jongman: David Ignatius Pimps “Fresh Approach” by Second String Prefects

A fresh approach to looking at foreign threats By David Ignatius, Washington Post, December 6, 2013 The chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees stated last weekend that the world was getting more unsafe. A few days later, the Pew Research Center reported that 52 percent of Americans think the U.S. should “mind its own …

Review (Guest) The Crash of 2016 – The Plot to Destroy America – And What We Can Do to Stop It

Thom Hartmann Provocative and Troubling Look at an Impending Economic Implosion, November 16, 2013 Book Shark “The Crash of 2016” is a provocative and troubling look at an economic implosion that will occur unless we take drastic measures to stop it. “A story of how America was dragged into the Crash of 2016.” Well-known progressive …

Berto Jongman: Saudi Arabia’s Efforts to Expand Radical Islam and Support Terrorism

Saudi Arabia’s Efforts to Expand Radical Islam and Support Terrorism Rachel Ehrenfeld and Ken Jensen American Center for Democracy, 23 February 2013 On the eve of the Arab Spring, Rachel Ehrenfeld published a lengthy and important study titled, “Their Oil Is Thicker Than Our Blood“*on Saudi support for Islamist terrorism and the global expansion of …

Andy Piascik: Crimes Against Humanity: Why Is Henry Kissinger Walking Around Free?

Crimes Against Humanity: Why Is Henry Kissinger Walking Around Free? Andy Piascik Two months ago, hundreds of thousands of Chileans somberly marked the 40th anniversary of their nation’s September 11th terrorist event. It was on that date in 1973 that the Chilean military, armed with a generous supply of funds and weapons from the United States, …

Marcus Aurelius: SecDef Puts Humans on the Block

SECDEF speaks; see article below.  Key points: First SOF Truth, equally applicable to every single element of the Joint Force, has been forgotten:  HUMANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN HARDWARE.  First SOF Truth, repeat after me, Mr. Secretary:  HUMANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN HARDWARE. Troops and families — carriers of the rifles and the rucksacks and …