Mini-Me: Call to Arms Occupy 2012 Hits West Coast & Paulistas

Huh? CULTURE | A Call to Arms from the Author of ‘The Open-Source Everything Manifesto’ By  RobertSteele – April 27, 2012 North Atlantic Books Communities As much as I love all that it represents, Occupy is struggling. The dirty little secret of Occupy is that it is moderately organized in NYC, Chicago, Boston, and Oakland …

Patrick Meier: Civil Resistance 2.0 – A New Database on Non-Violent Guerrilla Warfare

Civil Resistance 2.0: A New Database on Non-Violent Guerrilla Warfare Gene Sharp pioneered the study of nonviolent civil resistance. Some argue that his books were instrumental to the success of activists in a number of revolutions over the past 20 years ranging from the overthrow of Milosevic to ousting of Mubarak. Civil resistance has often been referred …

Berto Jongman: Interesting National Security Links

Aon downgrades 37 countries for terrorism and political violence CBRNE Terrorism Newsletter Future Trends and Challenges Middle East and North Africa Toward 2030 Iran & Israel: What the West should and can do “Targeting Top Terrorists: How Leadership Decapitation Contributes to Counterterrorism” Think Again: Al Qaeda Obituaries Premature U.S.’s Post-Afghanistan Counterinsurgency War: Colombia

Mini-Me: DoD “Spies” Will Die Often — Expect More “Car Crashes” All Over the World — and the Four Part Solution Clapper, Vickers, and Flynn Need to Consider

Huh? NIGHTWATCH Mali-US: For the record. US Africa Command announced that on 20 April three US soldiers and three civilians died in an automobile crash in Bamako. One was from the Army’s intelligence and security command and two were from special forces – Special Operations Command. The civilians were not identified, but almost certainly were …

Josh Kilbourn: “we are this far from a turnkey totalitarian state”

NSA Whistleblower Speaks Live: “The Government Is Lying To You” Just a month ago we raised more than a proverbial eyebrow when we noted the creation of the NSA’s Utah Data Center (codename Stellar Wind) and William Binney’s formidable statement that “we are this far from a turnkey totalitarian state”. Democracy Now has the former …

DefDog: Illegal DoD PSYOP Against US Media?

They probably should’ve stuck with leaflets and greeting cards. Note that there had been a scathing report on an Army Contractor…… USA Today: Online Pentagon Payback Campaign Targeted Us Katie Drummond WIRED, April 20, 2012 The U.S. military’s propaganda activities — known formally and euphemistically as “information operations” — has this week faced serious accusations …