Berto Jongman: Forbes Pimps Palantir

How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut This story appears in the September 2, 2013 issue of Forbes. EXTRACT Palantir lives the realities of its customers: the NSA, the FBI and the CIA–an early investor through its In-Q-Tel venture fund–along with an alphabet soup of other U.S. counterterrorism and military agencies. In …

David Swanson: Obama’s Campaign to Glorify the War on Vietnam

Obama’s Campaign to Glorify the War on Vietnam Wars exist because lies are told about past wars. When President Obama escalated the war on Afghanistan, he revived virtually every known lie about the war on Iraq, from the initial WMD BS to the “surge.”  While Americans remain unfathomably ignorant about the destruction of Iraq, a …

Berto Jongman: Terrorists’ Psywar Strikes Fear From Middle East To Mindanao

Terrorists’ Psywar Strikes Fear From Middle East To Mindanao The Ramadan holiday is done and the threat to U.S. diplomats in most of the middle east is over.  Or at least they can return to their embassies and consulates with enough confidence to think the Al Qaeda bombers are not going to strike right away …

4th Media: Saudis Pour Money Into Militants

Saudi Rulers Pour Money Into Arming Militants in Region If Saudi rulers had more brains, they might be formidably dangerous. Even with lackluster intelligence assets, they are already causing enough havoc and bloodshed across the Middle East and North Africa regions, pouring millions-of-dollars-worth of weaponry into Al Qaeda and other Takfiri networks that are destroying …

Mini-Me: Argentine President Opposes Security Council Veto, Deepens Latin American Rejection of NATO, OAS, and UN — Palestine and Malvinas Cited

Huh? Argentine president takes on Security Council veto Associated Press, 6 August 2013 Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez used the opportunity of presiding over the U.N. Security Council for the first time Tuesday to take aim at the veto power of its five permanent members _ the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France. Fernandez also …

Marcus Aurelius: CIA Cover-Up on Benghazi — Or John Brennan Forcing CIA Cover-Up on John Brennan and Benghazi?

(1) Saw this on CNN this afternoon; (2) through my own personal set of lenses, I see this as more likely than not to be true in virtually every detail.) Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, …