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Berto Jongman: Greenwald on ISIS, Rothkopf on National Insecurity Plus Spinney, Polk, Cockburn, and Steele on How ISIS and Hamas Have Won and Everything We Plan to Do Will Deepen Our Losses

Americans Now Fear ISIS Sleeper Cells Are Living in the U.S., Overwhelmingly Support Military Action Glenn Greenwald The Intercept, 8 September 2014 EXTRACTS What kind of country goes around bombing people with no strategic purpose and with little motive other than to “flex muscles” and “show toughness”? This answer also seems clear: one that is …

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Marcus Aurelius: General Robert Scales on Defeating ISIS – Comment by Robert Steele

MG(R) Scales, a former Commandant of the Army War College, is nothing if not a controversial character.  I don’t necessarily disagree with his assertion, but I have a couple of practical questions: Where are we going to get adequate numbers of personnel of the quality required to implement the McChrystal method on the scale proposed by …

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Jim Dean: Iranian Defensive Weapons Update — PSYOP or Not, Iran is Not Iraq —

[ Editors Note:  Once again we see a steady stream of evidence coming out of Iran as to how our wonderfully unbrilliant threatening foreign policy has forced them into a “Manhattan Project” level commitment to increase its domestically manufactured defensive weapons systems. At the top of the list has been missile development following the Russian …

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Chuck Spinney: Immanuel Wallerstein on Saudi Arabia – Besieged and Fearful

Saudi Arabia: Besieged and Fearful The Saudi regime has long been considered a pillar of political stability in the Middle East, a country that commanded respect and prudence from all its neighbors. This is no longer true, and the first ones to recognize this are those who are important internal players in the regime. Today, …

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Berto Jongman: Atrocties Etcetera – Continued Focus on Ukraine 1.5

AFGHANISTAN: US Scholar Dies in Kabul Restaurant Attack CLIMATE: 3 6 9 world – Davos hits panic button wimps out with carbon tax CULTURE: US Foreign Policy Idealists versus Realists CYBER CRIME: DarkList Aims To Be The ‘Yelp’ Of Silk-Road-Style Drug Dealers CYBER DIPLOMACY: Sweden’s early adopter foreign minister on crafting digital diplomacy CYBER: France’s …

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