Owl: UPDATED Top US War Criminals Named [Synopsis Added]

I put this first bit together to make it easier to grasp the depth and breadth of this scholarly and legal indictment. Scholar Names Top US War Criminals More Than Thirty Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes According to the distinguished American international law authority, Francis Boyle, a Professor of International Law at the …

Sir Richard Branson: Breaking the Taboo — Ending the War on Drugs also known as the War on People

Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, “Breaking the Taboo” is produced by Sam Branson’s indie Sundog Pictures and Brazilian co-production partner Spray Filmes and was directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade. Featuring interviews with several current or former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the …

Steven Aftergood: Senate Slams Door on Defense Clandestine Service — Robert Steele Comments + DoD Clandestine RECAP

Updated 11 Dec 2012 to add Graphic: Intelligence Requirements, Collection, Evaluation, and Capabilities Building Senate Puts Brakes on Defense Clandestine Service The Senate moved last week to restrain the rapid growth of the Defense Clandestine Service, the Pentagon’s human intelligence operation. Under a provision of the FY2013 defense authorization act that was approved on December …

Marcus Aurelius: New America Foundation Sucks Up – 10 [Paid For] Reasons a Woman Should Head CIA

Gag. 10 Reasons a Woman Should Head the CIA By Tara Maller, New America Foundation blogged to CNN, November 21, 2012 | A woman at the helm of the CIA wouldn’t simply make another crack in the intelligence glass ceiling, it could effectively shatter it. One of the most high-profile appointments President Obama will make …

Chuck Spinney: Palestinians Win Gaza Scuffle – Time On Their Side

As we proved in Vietnam, and are about to prove again in Afghanistan, you can win most battles in a tactical sense but still lose a war at the far more decisive strategic and grand-strategic levels of conflict.  (Grand strategy is explained here.)  Israel’s grand strategy is to establish a Greater Israeli Apartheid State (by annexing …