Review: Manufactured Crisis – The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

Gareth Porter 5.0 out of 5 stars Does for Iran What Truth Dig Did for Iraq, January 29, 2014 I *strongly* recommend this book to every citizen concerned about a government that lies all the time. The NSA debacle of recent time, on top of the CIA debacles (rendition, torture, assassination by drone) on top …

Review (Guest): A Manufactured Crisis – The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

Gareth Porter Review By Peter Jenkins @ Lobelog The subtitle of Gareth Porter’s new book, The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, is well-chosen. Large parts of A Manufactured Crisis are indeed untold till now. They amount to what the author terms an “alternative narrative”. But don’t be misled by “alternative”. This is not …

Reflections on Specific Intelligence Reforms (Including Alarm on NSA from 1994 Onwards)

The US IC has spent 1.2 trillion dollars since 1992 — and failed to provide ethical evidence-based decision-support capable of influencing tens of trillions more. This waste has to be understood in the context of a leadership (both intelligence and political)  focused moving money, not actually in the business of producing decision-support or making decisions …

Berto Jongman: Atrocities Etcetera + Best of Ukraine 1.7

9/11: CIA black operation murders Philip Marshall? (Wayne Madsen) BITCOIN: arrest of operators of two exchanges BOOK: Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict CHINA: annual urban exodus tracked by Baida CONGO: ambush of commander CONGO: situation worsening CYBER: cash registers – crime wave

Berto Jongman: Atrocities Etcetera – and the Ukraine

DATA: GDELT has a new home SEX AND POWER: Gaddafi’s underground sex bunkers THREAT: DSB report on US intelligence agencies incapable of detecting nuclear threat THREAT: Economic meltdown – growing warning signs THREAT: Economic systems surviving thanks to wars THREAT: the battlefield is the Internet UK: hitmen for hire – academics unlock the secret behaviour …

4th Media: US Government Arms and Protects Sinaloa Cartel’s Control of 80% of US Cocaine — Based in — Wait for It — Chicago

Nations Largest Cocaine Smuggler Revealed: The DEA Newly released documents, and testimony from Justice Department and DEA officials now show the stories of government running cocaine are true. An investigation conducted in Mexico found the American government allowed that country’s largest drug cartel, Sinaloa, to operate without fear of persecution. That groups is estimated to …