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2013/10/192013/10/19

SchwartzReport: NSA Has Not Foiled a SINGLE Terrorist Plot + NSA Meta-RECAP

Here is what I believe is a correct assessment concerning the creation of the national security state in which we live today. Absurd amounts of money have been spent, and civil liberties abridged to an unprecedented degree, on the basis of a threat consisting of little gangs. It is transparently disproportionate, there has to be …

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2013/10/172013/10/17

4th Media: What Will Happen to the Global Economy If BRICS Announce Launch of New Currency – BRISCO?

What Will Happen to the Global Economy If BRICS Announce Launch of New Currency – BRISCO? Peter Koenig, a former World Bank economist and a Voice of Russia regular, outlines one of the scenarios in which America’s plans for a New World Order are broken. Part I For several decades, we’ve been told by the mainstream media …

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2013/10/132013/10/13

Chuck Spinney: How Contemporary War “Reporting” Messes Up Your OODA Loops

The attached article is a very important and informative essay. Patrick Cockurn describes how the media echo chamber warps the Orientation* of the public, as well as that of a government, to unfolding events in the so-called global war on terror that triggered by 9-11 and the continuously metastasizing instabilities the GWOT is unleashing. I regard …

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2013/10/12

Penguin: Is World Waking Up to Saudi-Israeli Threat?

Conclusion up front. When will the Arabs AND the Americans wake up? And the Israeli-Saudi axis will keep blossoming. Few in the Middle East know that an Israeli company – with experience in repressing Palestinians – is in charge of the security in Mecca. (See here and here (in French)). If they knew – with …

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2013/09/30

Penguin: VA Pushing Pills and Getting Vets Hooked on Opiates

VA Pushing Pills and Getting Vets Hooked on Opiates The VA is prescribing 270 percent more opiates to veterans than it was 12 years ago, sometimes pushing the drugs to known addicts who later overdose, writes Aaron Glantz. This story aired on Reveal, a new public radio show from The Center for Investigative Reporting and …

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2013/08/292013/08/29

Andrew Garfield: War and T/Error: The U.S. Counter-propaganda Failure in Iraq

Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2007) pp. 23-32. by Andrew Garfield Defeat of the insurgency and terrorism in Iraq requires not only a military approach but also a political component. Although the “surge” may stabilize parts of Iraq and reduce the level of violence while the additional troops remain in place, long-term stability requires a more …

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2013/08/292013/08/29

Max Manwaring: Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict

Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict by Max G. Manwaring Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict Small Wars Journal, 27 August 2013 Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as …

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