Wayne Madsen: Snowden Had Help — CIA vs NSA Story Gains Traction

Snowden was not alone: CIA faction behind leak of NSA document trove February 15-17, 2014 Sources within the U.S. intelligence community have told WMR, on the condition of anonymity, that National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden gained access to and released tens of thousands of classified NSA documents because a faction within the Central Intelligence …

Berto Jongman: Time to Reassess Goals of Humanitarian Aid

It’s time to reassess the goals of humanitarian aid Those caught in conflict and natural disasters are part of growing trend exemplified by Syria, South Sudan and the Philippines David Miliband The Guardian, 28 February 2014 For the first time the UN has declared three simultaneous crises – in South Sudan, Syria and the Philippines …

Mini-Me: BENGHAZI – Hillary Lied, CIA Complied?

Huh? Did CIA official suppress Benghazi narrative? Accounts raise new questions By Catherine Herridge FoxNews.com, 14 February 2014 New information about the intelligence available in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack raises questions about whether the former No. 2 at the CIA downplayed or dismissed reporting from his own people in Libya that it …

David Swanson: War Can Be Ended — And No, the US Civil War Was Not About Slavery and Not Worth the Human and Other Enduring True Costs

War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …

4th Media: The Year of Iran – Challenging US Hegemony

The Year of Iran: Tehran’s Challenge to American Hegemony in 2014 This strategy aims to replace American hegemony, regionally and globally, with a more multi-polar distribution of power and influence. The United States is not the first imperial power in decline whose foreign policy debate has become increasingly detached from reality—and history suggests that the …