Chuck Spinney: Drones — Of Idiots, By Idiots, For Idiots + Meta-RECAP

Attached is a really first rate assessment of the real benefits and costs of the American infatuation with drone warfare.  The writer, Patrick Cockburn, is one of the very best reporters now covering the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. Chuck Spinney Cap Ferat, France America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda World View: …

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

ANIMATION on the Educational System Attack on Iran a Bad Idea AUDIO:  Prevention of Nuclear Terorrism Beware of Imitators: Al-Qa`ida through the Lens of its Confidential Secretary Book: Little America – the War Within the War for Afghanistan Book: Rethinking the British Counterinsurgency BOOK REVIEW: David Sanger’s Confront & Conceal International Cooperation on Cyber-Security NCTC …

David Swanson: Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in Murders on Gaza Flotilla

Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in Murders on Gaza Flotilla On the Second Anniversary of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in Murders of Nine Passengers By Ann Wright Two years ago I was a passenger on the first Gaza Freedom Flotilla which was sailing to break the …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Preface I

What all this boils down to is that normal average human beings, when they share information openly with one another and engage in respectful deliberative dialog, always, without exception, arrive at better conclusions than experts or elites who rely on “secret” information and generally have hiden agenda enabled by secrecy combined with public ignorance and …

2012 Reality Sandwich: How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny

How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny Robert David Steele Vivas Reality Sandwich, 24 May 2012 For six weeks in early 2012 I ran for the office of President of the United States of America.  I was accepted by the Reform Party (one of six accredited national parties completely shut out of the …