Owl: Is DHS Using NSA to Create a Domestic “Red List”? + DHS RECAP

This writer claims a “threat matrix” has been secretly developed in anticipation of a martial law declaration in the possibly near future. It will be for readers here to decide whether this is plausible or not, but it offers some interesting details on how the “threat score” will work that gives it some air of …

Berto Jongman: Professor Charles Kurzman Points Out Blatant Errors in World Map of Terrorism Now Posted at the Web Site of the NCTC

As Phi Beta Iota likes to say, “we do not make this stuff up.” Dear US Government: Your ‘Terror’ map of the Muslim World is from the Time of Shakespeare (Kurzman)) Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-director of the Carolina Center for the …

Allen Roland: Honoring Chalmers Johnson, Prophet of Truth + Empire Meta-RECAP

Prophet for a Dying Empire Every dying Empire has its truth telling prophet and America had its own with Chalmers Johnson. Johnson correctly compared the decay of the American empire, with its well over 600 overseas military bases, with the fall of the Roman Empire whereas the Senate becomes a wealthy corporate club and irrelevant …

Berto Jongman: GLADIO B Comes Home to London — USA Next?

UK pays price for MI5 courting terror By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Asia Times, 30 May 2013 The brutal murder of an off-duty British soldier in broad daylight in the southeast London district of Woolwich raises new questions about the British government’s national security strategy, at home and abroad. Officials have highlighted the danger of “self-radicalizing” …