Marcus Aurelius: Mike Flynn on Winning Wars

Read what the President-elect’s National Security Advisor had to say about winning wars a couple of months ago. Military Review is the professional journal of the Army’s intermediate-level professional school, the Command and General Staff College. How about Winning Our Nation’s Wars Instead of Just Participating in Them? Extracts Below the Fold

Berto Jongman: Death of BBC, Questionable Capacity of CIA’s OSE

BBC at risk of death — CIA’s OSE allegedly covers 75% of world to BBC’s 25%. Open Source Stupidity: The Threat to the BBC Monitoring Service In addition to further severe budget cuts, BBC Monitoring is currently facing the loss of its Caversham Park headquarters (formerly owned by the Government) and many of its specialists …

Kevin Barrett: NATO Gladio False Flag Campaign Includes Berlin, Russian Ambassador Assassination, NATO Auditor “Suicide,” More to Come….

Zio-Gladio strikes Europe! Berlin suspect, NATO auditor shot dead Truck attack solved via yet another “magic ID card” Exactly one week before today’s police execution of the “Berlin truck terrorist,” NATO’s chief auditor, Yves Chandelon, was found dead in Andenne, Belgium with a bullet in his head. Official story: Suicide due to financial problems.   . . .  …

Chuck Spinney: Jonathan Cook on Clinton’s Hypocrisy, Fake News, and US Intelligence Perfidy in False Claims About Russia “Hacking” the Election

The below essay by Jonathan Cook is a show stopper.  Cook, a British writer, is an independent reporter based in Nazareth, Israel.  Cook has proven himself to be one of  the most insightful western observers now reporting on Israel, the Palestinian conflict, and the Middle East in general. In the classic Beyond Culture, the great …

Fixing Intelligence II: Seven Precepts (PORTAL) – Of Immediate Use to the New Acting DNI

Fixing Intel II: Seven Precepts (PORTAL) Robert David STEELE Vivas Whoever Donald Trump picks as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), that person will be a placeholder and incapable of supporting the President with decision-support across all threats, policies, and budgets absent a Presidential decision to completely re-build and re-direct the the US Intelligence Community …