Berto Jongman: Gray Work – Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy

Can be ordered now, releases on 27 May 2014. Jamie Smith.  Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy (William Morrow, 2014) Book Description: An unprecedented, raw, first-hand look into the life of America’s private paramilitary warriors and their highly secretive work around the world. Jamie Smith, a contractor with more than two decades under …

Berto Jongman: Atrocities Etcetera – and the Ukraine

DATA: GDELT has a new home SEX AND POWER: Gaddafi’s underground sex bunkers THREAT: DSB report on US intelligence agencies incapable of detecting nuclear threat THREAT: Economic meltdown – growing warning signs THREAT: Economic systems surviving thanks to wars THREAT: the battlefield is the Internet UK: hitmen for hire – academics unlock the secret behaviour …

4th Media: The WEST Publicly Claims To Be Fighting Terrorism, Whilst Covertly Nourishing It

The WEST Publicly Claims To Be Fighting Terrorism, Whilst Covertly Nourishing It Syria Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, who headed his country’s official delegation to Geneva II, called at the opening session of the conference on a collective confrontation against terrorism and on starting a national dialogue in Damascus, SANA reported. By Walid al-Moallem – Syria …

Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.5

AL QAEDA: Al-Qaeda training British and European ‘jihadists’ in Syria to set up terror cells at home AL QAEDA: Libyan Desert gives al-Qaida refuge after Mali defeat Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/01/19/3880184/desert-gives-al-qaida-refuge-after.html#storylink=cpy CYBER: SCADA Holes Exploited ETHICS: Greenwald on Whistleblowers FUTURE: Nye on Avoiding a Gated World LIFE: Food Around the World – Enough to Eat, …

Chuck Spinney: Corrupt Congress Spends on Contractor Waste Instead of Human Core

WEEKEND EDITION JANUARY 17-19, 2014 The Cockburn Report Defense Spending: Putting Toys Before Boys by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch Being pro-defense in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles on the Potomac means, in the salty words of my late friend Col. David Hackworth, one of the U.S. Army’s most decorated combat soldiers, putting “the toys …