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Chuck Spinney: Drones of War — Send Money

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Chuck Spinney

In the last week, much has been made of the leaked DoD briefing entitled ISR Support to Small Footprint (CT) Operations – Somalia and Yemen, dated February 2013.  To date, all the reports I have read, save one, focus on the “critical shortfalls” of drone warfare revealed in these slides — see, for example The Intercept, which broke the story on October 15 and placed the slides on the net, and this report in Common Dreams, and anti-war progressive outlet. Both of these reports and the briefing slides contain a lot of useful information are well worth careful reading. But there is more.

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Mongoose: 1983 Nuclear Scare – Understanding How US Inspires Fear in Others — and How We Don’t “Get” That…

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In 1983 ‘war scare,’ Soviet leadership feared nuclear surprise attack by U.S.

A nuclear weapons command exercise by NATO in November 1983 prompted fear in the leadership of the Soviet Union that the maneuvers were a cover for a nuclear surprise attack by the United States, triggering a series of unparalleled Soviet military re­sponses, according to a top-secret U.S. intelligence review that has just been declassified.

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Yoda: Delusions of Grand Strategy

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yoda with light saberDelusions of 
Grand Strategy

The Problem With Washington’s Planning Obsession

EXTRACT

The ritual of crafting strategy encourages participants to spin a narrative that magnifies the scope of the national interest and exaggerates global threats.

The panel concluded, “Instead of unconstrained, long term analysis by planners who were encouraged to challenge preexisting thinking, the QDRs became explanations and justifications, often with marginal changes, of established decisions and plans.”

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Mongoose: Pedophilia Allegations Against 3 Australian Prime Ministers and Others….

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Coming soon… all together, exposed.

3 Former Australian PMs Accused of Participating in ‘VIP Pedophile Ring’

A woman has come forward claiming that she was a victim of a pedophile ring that included three former Australian prime ministers and was prostituted at parties in the Parliament House in Canberra.

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Berto Jongman: 25 European Countries Collaborated with Rendition and Torture in Secret Prisons

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berto smallVictims of U.S. Rendition & Torture Starting to Reclaim Rights Says Council of Europe Rights Chief

More than 25 European countries cooperated with the CIA’s rendition, torture and secret prison program, and the quest for accountability continues today. “This is a sordid story that does Europe shame,” says Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights. “[European countries] facilitated these human rights violations — they should be accountable before their citizens and before international law.”

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