Owl: It Sure Sucks When Reality and Conspiracy Merge – Is Greenwald Next? + Hastings & Car Hacking RECAP

The times, as Bob Dylan wrote, “are a`changin.”  Conspiracy theories about journalist Michale Hastings’ death – or murder – now have now been pumped out via “mainstream” vehicles, such as Huff Post, without it being just another exercise for bashing conspiracy theories with ridicule and rejection under the at-times hallucinatory influence of maximum prejudice and …

Marcus Aurelius: Obama and Kerry on Syria — Who Is Stabbing Who in the Back?

Dividing line Obama And Kerry Fail To Mask Foreign Policy Strains The two politicians appear to have different views over how Washington should exercise its influence across the globe, writes Geoff Dyer Financial Times, June 22, 2013, Pg. 4 When Barack Obama asked John Kerry to be his second-term secretary of state, the president appeared …

Review: Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror

Paul Vallely and Thomas McInerney 1.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guide to Morons in Power, June 19, 2013 This is the single best book for understanding what morons in power think when they pretend to think but are actually pursuing ideological and financial objectives far removed from the public interest. The authors, who demonstrate …

Paul Craig Roberts: Alternative Negative View of Latest Jobs Report

June 7, 2013. The payroll jobs report for May released today continues the fantasy. Goods producing jobs declined, with manufacturing losing another 4,000 jobs, but the New Economy produced 179,000 service jobs. Are these jobs the high-powered, high-wage “innovation jobs” that economists promised would be our reward from Globalism. I’m afraid not. According to the …

SchwartzReport: US Elective Invasion & Occupation of Iraq: Gift to China (and Iran),. Biggest Blunder Ever, Biggest War Crime in Modern History

You and I, thanks to Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Daniel Pipes, and a number of other lesser neocons, and an almost fatally incurious President, spent over a TRILLION dollars of public money, and squandered the lives of tens of thousands of young Americans who were killed, wounded, or permanently maimed, in order to …

Chuck Spinney: Is John McCain Senile? Or Was this a Neo-Con/Zionist-Funded Exercise?

Imagine if a senior democratic senator pulled this kind of asinine stunt during the Reagan or Bush II presidencies —  Would not the neocons, with McCain in the lead, would howl about usurping the commander chief’s prerogatives? McCain’s Syria Photo-Op Included Rebel Kidnapper Spokesman Says Incident ‘Regrettable,’ McCain Didn’t Know by Jason Ditz Anti-War.com, May …