Owl: American Mass Media – 24 Hours of Non-Stop Lies, Obfuscations, and Omissions

American Mass Media: 24 Hours of Non-Stop Lies, Obfuscations, and Omissions Is there anything in all of human history that is quite like American mass media in its power and capacity to pump out – through gigantic electronic fire hoses for 24 hours a day, every day of the week – lies upon lies (to …

Mongoose: Department of Agriculture Solicitation for Submachine Guns

We do not make this stuff up. The following solicitation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture almost defies belief. We’ve seen this type of bizarre behavior before, but it has mostly originated from the American Gestapo, aka the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). I highlighted this trend early last year in my post: Department of Homeland …

Chuck Spinney: William Grieder on US Merchants of Death Profiteering on the Ukraine

‘Merchants of Death’ Could Make a Lot of Money Off a War in Ukraine William Greider, thenation.com, May 13, 2014 – 3:57 PM ET If you’re wondering why some US politicians are so hot for war in the Ukraine, think “merchants of death.” At the height of the antiwar movement, that was nasty label some …

Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat

Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat A remarkable article appears in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.  (Also available as free PDF here.) The authors, experts in public health, are listed with all their academic credentials: William H. Wiist, DHSc, MPH, MS, Kathy Barker, PhD, Neil Arya, MD, Jon …

Mini-Me: US Intelligence Community’s Kodak Moment — IMPLOSION — Comment by Robert Steele

Huh? The U.S. Intelligence Community’s Kodak Moment The game is changing rapidly. Can Washington’s intelligence community keep up? Josh Kerbel National Interest, 15 May 2014 Josh Kerbel is the Chief Analytic Methodologist at the Defense Intelligence Agency. He writes often and openly on the intersection of government (especially intelligence) and globalization. The views expressed in …

Marcus Aurelius: CSA Reflects on Whole of Government Deficiencies — Military Best for Strong on Strong, Not Strong on Weak

Dempsey Wants to ‘Rebalance the Use of Military Power’ By James Kitfield Defense One, May 12, 2014 At the top of the United States military’s vast, global bureaucracy sits the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking military officer in the land and the president’s senior military advisor. The chairman sits between the four-star …

Berto Jongman: Washington Post Discovers Deep Web — and the World Bank’s Unindexed PDFs — PBI Technical Team Comments

Only fifteen years after Abe Lederman said the same thing at OSS! The solutions to all our problems may be buried in PDFs that nobody reads What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world’s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF, somewhere nobody will ever …