Kevin Barrett: US “death squad envoy” arrives in Egypt – and the slaughter begins — Department of State Militarized AND Marginalized

US “death squad envoy” arrives in Egypt – and the slaughter begins My new Press TV article, published Monday, is looking prophetic – or as we Muslims prefer to say “precognitive.” When the US sends a “death squad ambassador” to Egypt, you can figure that the big slaughter is about to begin. As of today, …

Berto Jongman: Forbes Pimps Palantir

How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut This story appears in the September 2, 2013 issue of Forbes. EXTRACT Palantir lives the realities of its customers: the NSA, the FBI and the CIA–an early investor through its In-Q-Tel venture fund–along with an alphabet soup of other U.S. counterterrorism and military agencies. In …

Berto Jongman: Terrorists’ Psywar Strikes Fear From Middle East To Mindanao

Terrorists’ Psywar Strikes Fear From Middle East To Mindanao The Ramadan holiday is done and the threat to U.S. diplomats in most of the middle east is over.  Or at least they can return to their embassies and consulates with enough confidence to think the Al Qaeda bombers are not going to strike right away …

Winslow Wheeler: Purge the Generals to Fix the Army + Flag Corruption and Ineptitude RECAP

There is a devastating review of the quality of Army leadership at the new issue of Armed Forces Journal.  At Armed Forces Journal, it is an article by Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (“Purge the Generals”), and it merits the attention of anyone following military affairs, I believe.  If you think Army leadership is an island of …

Yoda: Crowdsourcing Exploitation of NSA’s Unprocessed Data

Oversight: Crowdsourcing the NSA’s surveillance programs Geek comedian Tom Scott imagines citizen volunteers accessing the real-time data store of spy agencies to help keep the country safe. Imagine that the NSA and the U.K.’s GCHQ opened their databases and tools to public volunteers to aid them in the search for terrorists. Tom Scott, who is …

Marcus Aurelius: BREAKING – Defense to Protect Hardware Contracts, Savage the People

There is lot of stuff flying around Pentagon these days.  There is memo that underlies article next below but I haven’t seen it yet, trying to get from Sister service.  Irrespective of your opinion of  publication, this might be very good week to buy  current Army Times (12 Aug 2013) because it has some data and …