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Berto Jongman: Economic Consequences of War

Economic Consequences of War New report released by the Institute for Economics & Peace analyses the macroeconomic effects of US government spending on wars and the military since World War II. The IEP’s latest report,  Economic Consequences of War on the US Economy,  analyses the macroeconomic effects of US government spending on wars and the military. …

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Mini-Me: Bin Laden Road Show Begins Part I – David Ignatius on the CIA’s “Captured” Abbottabad Files

Huh?  We do not make this stuff up.  CIA’s Covert Action Staff is evidently having a ball, and David Ignatius has no problem playing the bimbo.  Note the built-in pre-excuse on poor syntax.  Note the pretense that incoherence was connected to long periods of time between sending, receiving, and responding.  The hit on Fox is …

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Chuck Spinney: Investigating NATO’s War Crimes Against Libya

Investigations Around Libya NATO’S Craven Coverup of Its Libyan Bombing by VIJAY PRASHAD, Counterpunch, March 15, 2012 Ten days into the uprising in Benghazi, Libya, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council established the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya. The purpose of the Commission was to “investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law in …

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Marcus Aurelius: State Department Moves to Fire Peter Van Buren Author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

For those of you with experience or interest in such things, State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS, long ago SY), has developed for itself a very negative reputation in personnel security arena. Through AFSA, American Foreign Service Association (I am not a member having never been a FSO), I have read numerous accounts of horror …

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