Bearden & Koskinas ON AFGHANISTAN + RECAP

Milt Bearden HIST 11 July 2011 Don’t Be Spooked by Pakistan HIST 1 Oct 2009 TESTIMONY to SFRC “The War in Afghanistan, The Regional Effects” HIST 9 April 2009 Obama’s War HIST March/April 2009 Curse of the Khyber Pass HIST Nov/Dec 2001 Afghanistan Graveyard of Empires Ioannis Koskinas 2013-08-01  The U.S.-Afghan game of “Chicken” 2013-07-10  …

Chuck Spinney: Thoughts on Obama’s March to Folly in Syria

President Obama’s Syria nightmare is becoming increasingly bizarre.  The man who claimed he could distinguish dumb from smart wars is marching headlong into the dumbest one yet, with allies jumping ship left and right.  Consider, please, the following: (1) NBC just released a poll saying a majority of the American people are opposed to another …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Corruption Goes Vertical — Google Search Integrity Score Now at 15% and Dropping

Organic Results on Google a Shrinking Commodity Posted: 09 Aug 2013 07:52 PM PDT The free ride is over. Google seems to have decided it is time to make the most of AdWords, the Tutorspree Blog illustrates in, “How Google is Killing Organic Search.” The post begins by praising the Google of the past which, …

Eagle: Police Murder 95-Year Old WWII War Hero — Wobbly, in a Home, They Taser Him and Then Shoot Him in Stomach with a Shotgun Beanbag

The police are out of control.  These two “officers” should hang.  This is what the criminally insane 9/11 DHS “lies for empire” and printed money mind-set have accomplished.  The militarization of the police — intellectually and morally limited to begin with — has destroyed the social contract between the community and its so-called goverance forces. …

SchwartzReport: Snowden Is Not the Story! — Fate of the Internet Is the Story!

As this story rolls out I am increasingly struck by the fact that the American corporate media has turned the Snowden Affair into a rather pedestrian thriller script completely missing the point. I ask myself are the reporters too dumb to see this, or is this a conscious choice. I think it is the later. …

Berto Jongman: If One Man Speaks Truth, What Prevents All Others from Hearing Him?

Viewpoint: Could one man have shortened the Vietnam War? EXTRACT: The job was to find captured Viet Cong guerrillas and to interview them. Over the next few years, they came up with 61,000 pages of transcripts. Those transcripts were translated into English and summarised and analysed. Goure took those analyses and he gave briefings to …