Penguin: Our Veterans, Our Blood, Our Soul

This captures my continuing anguish. How American Troops in Afghanistan became Unreal (Jones) Ann Jones writes at Tomdispath.com Informed Comment Posted on 11/08/2013 by Juan Cole The last time I saw American soldiers in Afghanistan, they were silent. Knocked out by gunfire and explosions that left them grievously injured, as well as drugs administered by …

Marcus Aurelius: Gala for CINCSOC Brings Out Many Failures

Without comment.  PBI should assign appropriate headline. Washington’s Intelligence Community Comes Out For a Gala “Spy” Prom The annual OSS Society Donovan Award dinner honored Adm. William H. McRaven By Carol Ross Joynt Washingtonian “Capital Comment,” 28 October 2013 No one in the ballroom came right out and shouted, “William McRaven for elected office!” but …

Robert Young Pelton: Crowd-Funding the Hunt for Jospeh Kony (Full Text – Foreign Policy October 2013)

ROBERT STEELE: I’ve known RYP for over a decade, perhaps more. I first learned of him when CIA was handing out his book, World’s Most Dangerous Places, as the best available primer for case officers going into darkness without bodyguards or armor (which is what real case officers do, don’t get me started on the …

Robert Young Pelton: Crowd-Funding and Crowd-Sourcing the Hunt for Joseph Kony — with Public Lessons Learned

As some of you know, I like to find people who don’t want to be found. Since the mid 90’s I have located and connected with over two dozen terrorist, criminal, jihadi and drug groups. The alphabet list of people I have tracked down and lived with include the taliban, FARC, LURD, al Qaeda, BRA, …

Paul Craig Roberts: Five Socko Truth Stories

Bin Laden’s “Killing” Darth Vader In The White House De-Americanization Of The World The Man Who Usurped The Constitution Worse Is To Come All stories with links accessible via A Potpourri of Exciting Reading — Paul Craig Roberts

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 …