Berto Jongman: The Cold War Roots of Islmaic Terrorism — US CIA Disinformation About Soviet Disinformation?

The Cold War Roots Of Islamist Terrorism Radio Liberty (a CIA Subsidiary) Saturday, July 13 2013 The highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to defect from the Eastern Bloc says the Soviet Union orchestrated an anti-American and anti-Israeli propaganda campaign in the Middle East four decades ago — and the effects of the effort still reverberate. Ion …

Winslow Wheeler: DoD Financial Mis-Management Destroys Lives — Many of Them Wounded Warriors

Long time financial management reporter Scot Paltrow and his colleague Kelly Carr have written a series, now beginning to appear at Reuters, on the incredible, continuing story of the Pentagon’s gross incompetence in managing its own books. The first two pieces of the series follows. The first article is long, but I urge you to …

DegDog: SEAL Records on Bin Laden Raid Transferred to CIA

Transparency lost?  Or an admission that SEALS were theater for a CIA theatrical production? The nation’s top special operations commander ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout to be purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being …

Chuck Spinney: CIA Media Entanglement and Snowden Story

The corporate media’s long relationship with the spook world may help explain why it doesn’t like Snowden Sam Smith, Undernews, 2013-07-07 11:15 AM This obituary is of note because it is a rare example of that long-time media bedfellow of spooks, the Washington Post, telling a piece of the story of the long relationship between …

99% Android Devices Totally Open — How Long Before Open Source Security and Code Level Integrity Are Appreciated?

Mobile security startup Bluebox Security has unearthed a vulnerability in Android’s security model which it says means that the nearly 900 million Android phones released in the past four years could be exploited, or some 99% of Android devices. The vulnerability has apparently been around since Android v1.6 (Donut), and was disclosed by the firm to …

Berto Jongman: Map of the Social Web (As Of Today)

Phi Beta Iota:  Well worth careful examination.  A useful categorization of many services, all of which have something to do with sharing, and none of which actually contribute to sense-making, decision-support, or true cost accountability.  Now imagine this same map, but this time every single element is part of a world brain and global game …