Charles Hugh Smith: Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse (Revolution)

Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse The frantic efforts of am exploitive elite to eliminate dissent only accelerates the regime’s path to collapse. Regimes that are losing public support always make the same mistake: rather than fix the source of the loss of public trust–the few enriching themselves at the expense of the many– the …

Winslow Wheeler: Is Military Industrial Complex Stabbing President Donald Trump in the Back By Heavily Funding Bernie Sanders?

* Bernie Sanders is attracting more defense-related campaign contributions than all of his rivals, including Donald Trump. * Sanders’ margin is frequently large — puling in multiples of what others have received, including Donald Trump. * On multiple specific measures, Trump is performing poorly in attracting defense-related contributions compared to several Democrats.

Steven Aftergood: CIA Closes Down OSINT, Commission Objects

Improved Access to Open Source Intelligence Urged Congress should require the Director of National Intelligence to make open source intelligence more widely available, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommended in its latest annual report. Last June, the former OpenSource.gov web portal was “decommissioned.” Its contents were transferred to classified or restricted networks that are mostly …