NIGHTWATCH: Tunesia – New Crisis (Intelligence) Networks

Tunisia: The Tunisian government announced yesterday it was setting up crisis cells after the United States warned that al-Qaida in the African Maghreb (AQIM) was seeking to establish a base in the country. “We have launched the creation of crisis cells to monitor terrorist activities on the border (with Libya and Algeria) and in the …

SchwartzReport: Supreme Court vs. Monsanto, Autisim, Obesity, & Premature Puberty All Because of Corrupt Food Practices

Like a car careening down a mountain road, we seem unable as a people and as a nation to gain control of our government and to make it serve national wellness instead of profit. Day after day these stories track the degradation of our quality of life. Only mass demonstrations and mass voting is going …

Chuck Spinney: Israel Seeks Exemption from US Sequester Cuts — Kerry Making the Deal?

  Oren: Israel trying to guarantee US military aid By GLOBES/RAN DAGONY Jerusalem Post, 02/03/2013 In light of cuts in US gov’t spending, Israeli ambassador says J’lem will try to safeguard funding for Iron Dome, Arrow. Jerusalem is working to salvage some of the military aid the US provides Israel, after US President Barack Obama …

Chuck Spinney: Afghan Fraud, Permanent War, VERY Expensive – Robert Steele: $2 Trillion a Year for DoD is Criminally Insane

Obama may want out of Afghanistan, but he is under to pressure to stay, and the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) still has a budgetary interest in maintaining perpetual war, be it cold or hot ( for reasons I explained here). The bloom is off the Karzai rose (as Amy Davidson explained in her 11 Jan …

Michel Bauwens: Crowdsourcing Economic Recovery

Crowdsourcing our economic recovery Van Jones CNN, 8 January 2012 Editor’s note: Van Jones, a CNN contributor, is president and founder of Rebuild the Dream, an online platform focusingon policy, economics and media. He was President Obama’s green jobs adviser in 2009. He is also founder of Green for All, a national organization working to …

Marcus Aurelius: Pentagon Plays the 800,000 Cuts Card, Dishonest to the Bone

Pentagon gets to work planning for severe cuts Wants to be ready if sequestration occurs Defense officials have begun “serious planning” for automatic spending cuts that could force the Pentagon to lay off hundreds of thousands of civilian workers as it reduces its budget by $500 billion over the next 10 years. “We are doing …