Reference: “True Cost” of Private Military Contractors

David Isenberg Author, Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq Posted: October 9, 2010 12:20 AM PMSC and the Quest for Perfect Information Phi Beta Iota: Click on the PMSC title to read the entire post at Huffington Post.  Below is the quoted testimony followed by a link to our review of the officer’s book. …

Journal: US Travel Alert–Political and Fraudulent?

History: 1)  9-11 known to have been at a minimum allowed to happen. 9-11 Truth Books & DVDs (29) 2)  CIA known to have sponsored terrorism in Philippines, Indonesia, Viet-Nam, and Italy as pretext. Review: Edward Lansdale’s Cold War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) (Paperback) Reference: US Responsibility for Atrocities in Indonesia 3)  Underpants …

Secrecy News on US Classification & 2 Headlines

BEHIND THE CENSORSHIP OF OPERATION DARK HEART By censoring Anthony Shaffer’s new book “Operation Dark Heart” even though uncensored review copies are already available in the public domain, the Department of Defense has produced a genuinely unique product:  a revealing snapshot of the way that the Obama Administration classifies national security information in 2010. With …

NIGHTWATCH Extract: China-Iran Rail + China ReCap

China-Iran: China’s Railways Minister Liu Zhijun will visit Tehran on 12 September to sign a contract between Iran and a Chinese company to build a $2 billion rail link to Iran, according to Iranian Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani. Transport ministers from Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran are expected to gather in Dushanbe in October to firm …

Review: The Atlas of Water, Second Edition–Mapping the World’s Most Critical Resource

Single Best Book on Content, Visuals, and Price August 26, 2010 Maggie Black and Jannet King This is one of twelve books on Water that I have read or am reading, expecting to get through all of them in the near term. In comparison to the other works, this is the single best book when …

CIA Deceives Supreme Court + Former Guantanamo Detainee Running For Office in Afghanistan

CIA hid terrorism prisoners from US Supreme Court August 12, 2010 by JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The Central Intelligence Agency purposefully concealed at least four terrorism detainees from the US legal system, including the Supreme Court, according to an exclusive report by the Associated Press. The news agency has revealed that the CIA secretly …