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2013/10/132013/10/13

Chuck Spinney: How Contemporary War “Reporting” Messes Up Your OODA Loops

The attached article is a very important and informative essay. Patrick Cockurn describes how the media echo chamber warps the Orientation* of the public, as well as that of a government, to unfolding events in the so-called global war on terror that triggered by 9-11 and the continuously metastasizing instabilities the GWOT is unleashing. I regard …

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2013/10/01

John Steiner: From Sanity Central on NSA and the Surveillance State

“The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984, (said Guardian Editor) Alan Rusbridger . ‘Orwell could never have imagined this concept of scooping up everything all the time’. The NSA stories were ‘clearly’ not about totalitarianism, but an infrastructure had been created that could be dangerous if it fell …

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2013/09/292013/09/29

Chuck Spinney: Sy Hersh Channels John Boyd, Chuck Highlights Hersh

In identifying “difficult subordinates who should have been promoted, I should have included Colonels Doug Macgreagor and Jim Burton and especially Major Don Vandergriff. Sorry for the omission CS note – Hersh channels John Boyd* : my comments are inserted in “blue” [italics] my added emphasis to Sy’s words in bold black. Of course, this …

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2013/09/27

Berto Jongman: Cyber Week in Review

TOP STORIES (Separate Posts Each) Berto Jongman: BRICS Creating Own Internet — Routing Around the US-UK Berto Jongman: Google Guilty of Global Wiretapping Berto Jongman: John McAfee Vows to Make Internet “Impossible to Hack” + Internet/Human Intelligence Meta-RECAP [Bottom Line Up Front: Internet without Intelligence and Integrity is Noise] Berto Jongman: Open Secure Internet Moves …

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2013/09/23

SchwartzReport: Bolivia to Sue US for Crimes Against Humanity

Not a word of this in the American corporate press, but I take this as further evidence of our declining status in Latin America as a result of the U.S.’s bullying behavior. The craziness and paranoia ginned up in this country after 911 looks, to people outside of it, like a kind of national madness. …

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2013/09/162013/09/16

Chuck Spinney: Andrew Bacevich on David Brooks of the NYT “Always Wrong”

This superb piece by Andrew Bacevich (Colonel US Army Ret.) is one the best portraits of what is wrong with self-important warmongering commentariat in the mainstream media: Track records count for nothing in the cozy salons of Versailles on the Potomac. SUNDAY, SEP 15, 2013 3:30 PM UTC David Brooks is constantly wrong Takes a …

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2013/08/27

Chuck Spinney: Kosovo as Precedent for Syria — Obama Administration Disconnected from Reality and Well Over the Line

The Kosovo Precedent Syria in the Crosshair by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch, 27 August 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/27/syria-in-the-crosshair/ I found it truly scary to read that some high officials in the Obama Administration are so disconnected from reality that they consider the 1999 war in Kosovo to be a precedent for justifying limited cruise missile strikes in …

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