Chuck Spinney: Peter Van Buren – Any More U.S. “Stabilization” and Africa Will Collapse

Any More U.S. “Stabilization” and Africa Will Collapse By: Peter Van Buren Monday December 23, 2013 10:39 am South Sudan is at the brink of civil war and societal collapse History is just one of those hard things to ignore, especially in South Sudan. In 2011, the U.S. midwifed the creation of a new nation, …

Berto Jongman: Pakistan Outs Three CIA Chiefs in Three Years… + CIA Cover Incompetence RECAP

Pakistan Outs Three US CIA Station Chiefs in Three Years Corporate Media Keeps US Citizens in the Dark by DAVE LINDORFF Counterpunch, Weekend Edition December 20-22, 2013 For the third time in three years, a CIA station chief has been outed in Pakistan, a country where the CIA is running one of its largest covert …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

ANALYSIS: Methodology to Analyze Future Security Threats (3): Scenarios as an Organic Living System BOOK: Evaluation Methodologies for Aid in Conflict BOOK: Global Intellectual History BOOK: Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present CYBER: BIOS Malware Can Destroy Any Computer

NIGHTWATCH: Syrian Kurds Holding North – Kurdistan Emergent + Kurd RECAP & Syria RECAP

Syria-Kurds: Islamist groups in northern Syria are weakening after months of fighting and Kurdish militias are gaining ground, a top Syrian Kurdish leader said on Wednesday. Saleh Muslim, head of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said in an interview that Tuesday’s announcement of an interim Syrian Kurdish autonomous administration in northeastern Syria is only …

Marcus Aurelius: US Effectiveness in Providing Security and Emergency Relief to Diplomatic Facilities

FYI.  Includes Benghazi. PDF (149 Pages): (U) Responding to Diplomatic Security Needs & Crises EXTRACTS: As a result of several gaps in reporting by the DOS and modifications to the Department’s reporting criteria, the researcher was unable to obtain the total number of attacks that targeted U.S. missions between 1979 and 2012. . . . …

Berto Jongman: Russia’s Illegals and “Day X” Behind the Lines General War Plan

An inside look into Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service – mysterious Directorate “S”, Department “12″ EXTRACT: “The formula Day X in our documents meant the beginning of a large scale war against the west. Our department 12 (together with department 8) was in charge of perpetrating acts of sabotage and terror on the enemy territory…to participate …