Gordon Duff: Update on Advanced Weapons Into Syria

“Doomsday Weapons To Syria”: Putin Russian Advanced Weapons for Syria: Unrevealed Secrets of Vladimir Putin’s Recent Visit to London [Editors Note: We had reported earlier that when the Israelis used an American made mini-nuke bunker buster in the Damascus attack that they had crossed Russia ‘quiet red line’ of using a tactical nuke against an …

Chuck Spinney: Imperial Idiocy Wrecks Middle East (Fruits of Treason) — End of Sykes-Picot Betrayal, Five Inter-Mixed Conflicts, Return of the Tribes

Patrick Cockburn has written a very important essay on Syria in the London Review of Books (attached below).  The essay is aptly titled but has only a few oblique, albeit important, references to Sykes – Picot Agreement, a document some readers may not familiar with.  Let’s begin with a little background. The Sykes-Picot agreement (it …

Marcus Aurelius: SOCOM Working on Global Network — Comment by Robert Steele

Well worth reading between the lines. Socom Officials Work on Plan for Global Network By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., June 3, 2013 – About 100 people are hard at work at the U.S. Special Operations Command headquarters here on a new plan that will operationalize the way the …

Tom Atlee: A Difference of View — Top Down Control of Unstable Bottom, or Bottom-Up Renaissance of Capitalism and Democracy?

The Guardian UK reports that the US and other militaries are preparing for major domestic disorder stimulated by climate, energy, and economic crises. NSA surveillance is part of that.  This shoring up of power-over from the top calls for our rapid development of power-with from below. Ramping up the two big Powers The report below …

Neal Rauhauser: Rivers of the Fertile Crescent (Six Graphics)

Rivers Of The Fertile Crescent The Fertile Cresent is often referred to as the cradle of civilization. The map show the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. Not shown but equally important are the Jordan, which drains to the Dead Sea, and Lebanon’s Litani River. Each of these waterways is shared between at least three countries, …

Jean Lievens: Nick Ilyadis Wants Intelligent Networks to Make Use of Internet of Things Data — Could This Include Embedded True Cost Data?

We Need Intelligent Networks to Make Use of Internet of Things Data, says Broadcom’s Nick Ilyadis Nick Ilyadis, CTO of Broadcom, discussed his company’s long lasting relationship with HP, security trends, and the big trend of  Internet of Things with theCube co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the HP Discover 2013 conference. “We’re …

Eagle: Toward the Internet of Pro-Active Hand-Held Sensors

This new app turns iPhones into a handheld biosensor equivalent to $50,000 lab unit This portable biosensor is capable of detecting viruses, bacteria, proteins, toxins, and other specific modules, and takes just a few minutes to process, which could greatly speed up in-the-field assessments of issues as diverse as groundwater contamination, medical diagnostics, mapping the …