Andrew Cockburn: Air Power Sucks Big Time — USAF Lies Like a Dog, Marine Corps Aviation is Close Behind…

Did Air Strikes Do It?  No. Andrew Cockburn New York Review of Books, July 12, 2012 In response to: The Dilemma of Madeleine Albright from the June 7, 2012 issue To the Editors: Paul Wilson, in his review of Madeleine Albright’s Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948 [NYR, June 7], sensibly …

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

24 June Uranus Square Pluto CBME Newsletter Drone Warfare (Book Review) Entanglement – Movie Trailer Extreme Right Wing Movements Fighting a Pandemic Flame Developed by Israel and USA GAO on Aviation Security Global Security Landscape Invisible Wars Movie Trailer Iran Detects Massive Cyber-Attack Israel – More Bunker Buster Bombs Jihaddist Twittering Jihaddist Twitter Use Meltdown …

David Isenberg: SPIEGEL – The President of Disappointments

Worth reading. SPIEGEL 06/14/2012 05:49 PM The President of Disappointments How Obama Has Failed to Deliver By Ullrich Fichtner, Marc Hujer and Gregor Peter Schmitz Barack Obama entered the White House as a savior. But he hasn’t delivered. The ideological chasms in the US are as deep as they have ever been, with Republicans blocking the …

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Africa US Secret Operations Across Boko Haram Report Brian Jenkins on Getting (the Terrorist) Threat Right BOOK:  Liars and Outliers – Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive BOOK: Terrorism Lectures by Dr. James Forest British Communications Law Call for International Treaty on Cyberwarfare Contractors Doing Spy Missions CRS via FAS on Mexican Cartels …

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: …