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2012/04/08

Chuck Spinney: The Afghanistan Disaster Part II – The Long Hard Costly Exit

Given Nato’s political problems with Pakistan, the Brits have elected to leave Afghanistan along the so-called Northern route to the Baltic Sea (see my 27 November posting, Afghan Dunkirk for discussion of the selection). Now, as Bryan Brady and Jonathan Owen report in the Independent, the entirely predictable baksheesh game has begun. Think of what the far larger, more logistics-intensive US …

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2012/03/312012/03/31

Mini-Me: Leon Panetta on Dysfunctional Government + Meta-RECAP

Huh? Panetta: Political dysfunction threatens security By Walter Pincus The Washington Post, 30 March 2012 (J. Scott Applewhite — Associated Press) “Dysfunction in Washington … threatens our security and raises questions about the capacity of our democracy to respond to crisis.” That warning came from Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta Thursday night at a dinner …

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2012/03/262012/03/26

John Stoehr: Selling war from 1917 to 2012

John Stoehr is the editor of the New Haven Advocate and a lecturer at Yale. Part II: Selling war from 1917 to 2012 The US has become more accepting of capitalism in the past century, even as economic security has declined. Al Jazeera, 26 March 2012 New Haven, Connecticut – One day in 1917, US …

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2012/03/262012/03/26

John Stoehr: Myth of Freedom in Land of the Free

John Stoehr is the editor of the New Haven Advocate and a lecturer at Yale. PART I: The myth of freedom in the land of the free The US touts itself as the land of free, but it has laws which are designed to crush criticisms of the state. Al Jazeera, 22 March 2012 New …

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2012/03/21

Reference: Stratfor Emails

Global Intelligence Files: Stratfor Emails On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides …

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2012/03/092012/03/09

DefDog: Information Operations at Its Best

I am always amazed when people tell me IO doesn’t work and then I see things such as this….I guess what they are really saying is incompetence doesn’t work….. Kony 2012: The anatomy of a viral campaign Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post, 9 March 2012 A particularly savvy media campaign by a nonprofit group called Invisible …

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2012/03/09

David Swanson: Obama OK on Israel Nuking Iran — AFTER the November 2012 Election

Evidence of War Lies Public Pre-War This Time By David Swanson WarIsACrime.org, 9 March 2012 When President George W. Bush was pretending to want to avoid a war on Iraq while constantly pushing laughably bad propaganda to get that war going, we had a feeling he was lying. After all, he was a Republican. But …

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