Mini-Me: Toulouse Terrorist Worked for French Intelligence

Huh? Intel ‘Sources’ Claim Toulouse Terrorist Worked for French Intelligence Milan IL FOGLIO.it in Italian 23 Mar 12 [Report by Daniele Raineri: “The French Al-Qa’ida Murderer Is an Intelligence Operation That Went Wrong”] The young French Al-Qa’ida member who has been slaying soldiers and Jews in the Toulouse area was a French intelligence services operation …

DefDog: Delusions of Power – Absolute Corruption of US Power

Corruption infects our world in many forms: material and moral, visible and invisible, direct and indirect. But the underlying motive behind all things corrupt is a strong opportunistic instinct to benefit oneself at the cost of others by allurement or deception. No wonder politics has fallen so much into disrepute. The aphorism of the nineteenth-century …

Berto Jongman: Various National Security Readings

Background on Forsane Alizza (Islamic Action Group in France) Disaster Risk Reduction Spending FBI-NYPD Turf Battle Hunger as a Weapon of Mass Destruction PMC Support for FSA in Syria Religion and Climate Change Fueling Chaos What’s Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems

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 …

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 …