Chuck Spinny: USA & Israel, Extrajudicial Killing

Obama’s kill list policy compels US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza The US was once part of the international consensus against extra-judicial assassinations. Now it is a leader in that tactic. Glenn Greenwald. guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 November 2012 13.23 EST Israel‘s escalating air attacks on Gaza follow the depressingly familiar pattern that shapes this …

Mini-Me: Jane Harman at CIA? Over Many Dead Bodies + CIA RECAP

Huh? Jane Harman and Israeli Spying Possible New CIA Director Already Politically Compromised by ALISON WEIR CounterPunch, November 14, 2012 It is astounding to find that one of the handful of prospects being floated to become CIA director following the fall of General David Petraeus is a person reportedly implicated in a 2005 Israeli spy …

Berto Jongman: Shadow Banking & Tax Loopholes – With Comment by Robert Steele on Integrity & Automated Transaction Payment Tax

Beyond Regulators’ Grasp How Shadow Banks Rule the World By Martin Hesse and Anne Seith Spiegel, 11/14/2012 Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They’re outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to …

Chuck Spinney: Break Syria, Mali, Niger? Do We Really Want to Keep Making a Costly Mess?

NOVEMBER 12, 2012 An Era of Conflicts The New Political Map of the Middle East by PATRICK COCKBURN, Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/12/the-new-political-map-of-the-middle-east/ President Obama is lucky in his opponents, particularly when it comes to explaining why America’s influence is waning in the Middle East. The issue was hardly mentioned in the election, aside from a botched attempt …

Owl: Paula Broadwell nee Kranz as Zionist Honey? — Probably Not But Some Questions Do Need to Be Asked

A Covert Affair: Petraeus Caught in the Honeypot? Justin Raimondo has uncovered the connection that Petraeus’ lover, Paula Blackwell [nee Kranz], has to neocon and Zionist entities, which may explain who really brought Petreaus down: “While Broadwell’s current academic affiliation is with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, her previous post was deputy director of the …