Journal: Chuck Spinney Highlights Labor Day in a Kleptocracy

Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy posted by Juan Cole Sept 7, 2009 http.www.juancole.com/2009/09/where-have-all-broad-shoulders-gone-or.html The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still looking for a job recently. A vast bank robbery by the corrupt on …

Journal: Chuck Spinney on Moral and Mental Collapse of the Federal Government

EMPHASIS: The larger result of this cynical behaviour is a widespread moral and mental collapse that is rapidly transforming our experiment in building a government of the people, by the people, and for the people into a sham that is more like a 21st Century corporatist mutation of 18th Century court of Louis XVI. Viewed …

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 3 September 2009

Hot Topics AA:  Al-Qaeda launchpad in Yemen gives Saudis new headache 09/02/09 AF:  Warlord’s Defection Shows Afghan Risk 09/02/09 AF:  What’s Right With Afghanistan 09/02/09 IQ:  Iraq al Qaeda militant says Syria trained him 08/31/09 KG: US troops ordered out of Kyrgyzstan after Russia deal 08/30/09 PK:  Pakistan’s most-wanted: look at who isn’t listed 09/01/09 …

SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 1 September 2009

Hot Topics AA: ARMOR: Improvised Armor In South America 08/29/09 AA: Falkland/Malvinas experience repeatedly recalled in Unasur summit 08/30/09 AA: Latin American Physical Security Market Growing: Report 08/31/09 AA: Mexico and Argentina move towards decriminalising drugs 08/31/09 CO: “An eternal battle against oblivion” 08/31/09 CO: Meeting a Girl FARC Guerrilla in Bogotá 08/29/09 GT: Malnutrition …