Worth a Look: Real-Life Fiction, Spying Outside the Wire and Beyond CIA’s Capabilities

Who is fighting the war in Afghanistan? Did you know that 52% of people fighting in Afghanistan are contracted to do so? Contractors operate far beyond the borders of Afghanistan, they operate globally. Real people. Real missions. Real wars.  After the United States was attacked and the President vowed to search and destroy the enemy, …

Owl: Epidemic of Banker Suicides — CIA Role? What Will We Learn Soon? [3 Articles]

Lots of Banker Suicides – or Bankers Suicided – Lately There has been a rash of articles coming out of the alternative Web press in the last 2-3 weeks about the untimely deaths of bankers, financiers, financial journalists and Wall Street types that smell, in most cases, very fishy, and the number and frequency of …

Jim Fetzer: 9/11 – World Swirling in Volcano of Lies

9/11 – World Swirling in Volcano of Lies by Dennis Cimino with Jim Fetzer Veterans Today, 14 February 2014 BREAKING NEWS: We have found a resolution that validates and integrates three apparently inconsistent positions (on the use of big nukes, small nukes and nanothermite) from respected experts on 9/11. The contentious debate over how the …

Tikkun Rabbi Michael Lerner: Call for a New Language of Environmental and Social Responsibility, a New Spiritual Covenant

[ Editor’s Note: Henry Giroux, a frequent author for Tikkun magazine, calls for a movement that challenges what Giroux calls “the neoliberal nightmare” and presents a new language of civic values and social responsibility.The ESRA–the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the Spiritual Covenant with America at www.spiritualprogressives.org are examples of …

4th Media: China as Financial Stabilizer for Latin America?

“China Has Good Reason to Help Stabilize Latin American Economies” Although these alliances will primarily be closer to home, most of Latin America is a naturally ally not only because of its increasing trade and commercial relations with China, but because of its common interest in an international political order that favors respect for national …

Marcus Aurelius: SSCI Unclassified Report on Benghazi Slams State, CIA, CJCS, and CINCAFRICOM

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) today released a declassified report on Sep 2012 attack on Consulate Benghazi. Invite your attention to SSCI press release, first below, and report’s assessment of CJCS’s performance as a leader, second below. Actual declassified and redacted report attached in PDF format. NB: Key findings and recommendations, and complete downloadable …

Chuck Spinney: Afghan Disaster…Rooted in Western Ignorance and Western Lies

The Afghan adventure is ending in a disaster.  The outsiders are again leaving with their tails between their legs.  This will be the fourth time for the Brits.  For the U.S. Afghanistan is just another disaster in what what is becoming a dreary pattern of military failures at ever higher costs.  Predictably, President Obama’s surge …