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Chuck Spinney: Marisa Taylor on Criminally Dysfunctional Intelligence and Defense “Whistleblower” System — Screw the Truth, Kill the Messenger

Below is superb piece of reportage by Marisa Taylor of the Washington McClatchy bureau.  By a meticulous compilation of facts, Ms. Taylor has painted a detailed portrait of how this homeostatic control system protects normalcy in bureaucratic cultures.  The only point I would disagree with is her characterization of this system as being “broken.” To my thinking, …

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Review: Partnership for the Americas – Western Hemisphere Strategy and U.S. Southern Command

James Stavridis 5.0 out of 5 stars Our Best Thinking to Date — We Can Go Much Further, December 24, 2014 This is the pre-cursor book to The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO which I have reviewed most favorably and strongly recommend. This book — while free online as are all NDU …

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Robert Steele: Secret Torture versus Open Source Intelligence

Secret Torture versus Open Source Intelligence OpEdNews, 23 December 2014 In 1989, as a former spy for the CIA who became the second-ranking civilian in Marine Corps Intelligence, I ghost-wrote an article for the Commandant of the Marine Corps, “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s.” This was the first article to distinguish between the conventional …

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Nafeez Ahmed: USG Culpability in Pakistani School Massacre + Criminal Foreign Policy & Revolution USA RECAP

Who is responsible for the Pakistan school massacre? EXTRACT In 2009, I obtained a confidential report commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which provided a shocking explanation for this seemingly contradictory policy. The report, authored by respected defence consultant Prof Ola Tunander, who had previously contributed to a high-level Danish government inquiry into …

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中国 OSE Manifesto in Chinese – Chapter 1

DOC: OSE Chinese – Chapter 1 2014_12_15 在中国所有章节 – All Chapters in Chinese 另请参阅一个开源的（技术）机构的提议在http://tinyurl.com/VP-OSA，谷歌翻译，可以用来读取，在简化或传统中国人。作者是被邀请到中国讨论这些可能性非常感兴趣;他在新加坡长大，将荣幸地被要求在中国建立或亚洲这在任何地方。 Lìng qǐng cānyuè yīgè kāiyuán de (jìshù) jīgòu de tíyì zài http://Tinyurl.Com/VP-OSA, gǔgē fānyì, kěyǐ yòng lái dòu qǔ, zài jiǎnhuà huò chuántǒng zhōngguó rén. Zuòzhě shì bèi yāoqǐng dào zhōngguó tǎolùn zhèxiē kěnéng xìng fēicháng gǎn xìngqù; tā zài xīnjiāpō …

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SchwartzReport: 20 Key Findings on CIA Torture — Should President Fire DNI, USDI, and D/CIA?

20 key findings about CIA interrogations Almost 13 years after the CIA established secret prisons to hold and interrogate detainees, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the CIA’s programs listing 20 key findings. Click a statement below for a summary of the findings: 1 “not an effective means of acquiring intelligence” 2 “rested …

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