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Paul Craig Roberts: Is the USA a “Failed State?”

A Plague Upon The World: The USA is a “Failed State” Interview with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Interview with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary US Treasury, Associate Editor Wall Street Journal, Professor of Political Economy Center for Strategic and International Studies Georgetown University Washington DC. Question:  Dr. Roberts,  the United States is regarded as the …

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Stephen Aftergood: What Is Overclassification?

WHAT IS OVERCLASSIFICATION? When people criticize overclassification of national security information, what exactly are they talking about?  Is it too much secrecy?  The wrong sort of secrecy?  Classifying something at too high a level?  Oddly, there is no widely-accepted definition of the term. But since the solution to overclassification, if any, will naturally be shaped …

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Neal Rauhauser: TRAC – Taking Out Illegal Website Operations

TRAC: Taking Out Illegal Website Operations Yesterday the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium published Taking Out Illegal Website Operations (subscription required). This is a fairly short article describing law enforcement’s efforts to remove child pornography purveyor Freedom Hosting, money laundering operation Liberty Reserve, and black market Amazon clone Silk Road. This is my third article for …

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SchwartzReport: NSA Has Not Foiled a SINGLE Terrorist Plot + NSA Meta-RECAP

Here is what I believe is a correct assessment concerning the creation of the national security state in which we live today. Absurd amounts of money have been spent, and civil liberties abridged to an unprecedented degree, on the basis of a threat consisting of little gangs. It is transparently disproportionate, there has to be …

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David Isenberg: Protecting Victims of the Privatization of War

Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire Protecting the Victims of the Privatization of War  Over the years we have seen numerous cases of various abuses and outright crimes by private military and security contractors (PMSC).  True, they don’t happen every day, and don’t reflect the actions of the vast majority of the contractors working overseas but …

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Berto Jongman: Russia’s Illegals and “Day X” Behind the Lines General War Plan

An inside look into Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service – mysterious Directorate “S”, Department “12″ EXTRACT: “The formula Day X in our documents meant the beginning of a large scale war against the west. Our department 12 (together with department 8) was in charge of perpetrating acts of sabotage and terror on the enemy territory…to participate …

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