Chuck Spinney: How Bankers Own White House, Offer Clandestine Tax Evasion Services in USA

The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Keeps Spinning Tuesday 24 January 2012 by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: “Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.” When we saw it on the website Gawker.com we had to smile — but the …

Thomas Briggs: No, China Does Not Have 3,000 Nuclear Weapons (Nor Does CIA Have Clandestine Assets Anywhere Relevant)

Here is another posting related to this topic to balance the earlier piece from the Washington Post. No, China Does Not Have 3,000 Nuclear Weapons A study from Georgetown University incorrectly suggests that China has 3,000 nuclear weapons.The estimate is off by an order of magnitude. By Hans M. Kristensen EXTRACT: According to the International …

DefDog: “Signature Reduction”: Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army

“Signature Reduction”: Inside the Military’s Secret Undercover Army The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called “signature reduction.” …

Caitlin Johnstone: What If The Big Reveal Already Happened?

What If The Big Reveal Already Happened? Do you remember how there was global outrage after the Panama Papers exposed a massive international tax evasion scheme involving many high-profile wealthy elites, leading to mass incarcerations and sweeping overhauls to the world’s taxation and legal systems? No? How about the huge scandal when it was revealed that the CIA unilaterally …