Mini-Me: Jordanian King Manipulates Obama & Light-Weight National Security Team — French & British Lie on Chemical Weapons — Susan Rice Ignored

Huh? Behind Obama’s About-Face on Syria Jolted by Hezbollah’s Entry Into Civil War and Chemical Weapons, Administration Chose to Arm Rebels Adam Entous Wall Street Journal, 14 June 2013 EXTRACT: In one sobering moment in late April, Jordan’s King Abdullah II presented President Barack Obama and aides with a bleak scenario for Syria—showing them a …

David Swanson: Mr. President – Hillary Clinton Is Calling You a Wuss! So Invade Syria, Enrich the Bankers, Get Impeached — There Is No Downside!

Syria: Pros and Cons Mr. President, if I were a professional con artist paid to give you the pros and cons on engaging in a war in Syria, here’s what they would be: As you know, former president Clinton, probably understood by many to also be speaking on behalf of his wife, has called you …

David Swanson: Kellogg-Briand Pact – Peace Pact of Paris — Bans War, USA is Still a Party to This Treaty

A Built-In Cure for War Erin Niemela’s recent proposal that we amend the Constitution to ban war is provocative and persuasive.  Count me in.  But I have a related idea that I think should be tried first. While banning war is just what the world ordered, it has about it something of the whole Bush-Cheney …

Jim Clapper: Do I Really Want to Be Here? + Robert Steele’s Simple Guide to Fixing National Intelligence + Intelligence Failure Meta-RECAP 2.0

Americans Must Call for Independent Counsel and Ouster of Clapper (Forbes) Fire James Clapper: The Director of National Intelligence lied to Congress about NSA surveillance. What else will he lie about? (Slate) James Clapper, NSA and the “L” word (Washington Post) James Clapper Reassures Private Contractors In Wake Of NSA Leak (Huffington Post) N.S.A. Disclosures …

Jon Rappoport: NSA as Front for Two Israeli Companies, Narus and Verint, Specializing in Mass Surveillance & Getting Zionist Copy of Everything

NSA, the secret AT&T spy room, and 2 Israeli companies Boom. Explosive revelations. The NSA is using telecom giants to spy on anybody and everybody, in a program called PRISM. But the information is not new. Three books have been written about the super-secret NSA, and James Bamford has written them all . In 2008, …

Berto Jongman: Professor Charles Kurzman Points Out Blatant Errors in World Map of Terrorism Now Posted at the Web Site of the NCTC

As Phi Beta Iota likes to say, “we do not make this stuff up.” Dear US Government: Your ‘Terror’ map of the Muslim World is from the Time of Shakespeare (Kurzman)) Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-director of the Carolina Center for the …