Review: Shadow Government — Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

Tom Engelbardt 5.0 out of 5 stars Responsible and Compelling — Avoids Some of the Darkest Facts, October 16, 2014 A more timely relevant book for US citizens could not be imagined, at least by me. By the sheerest coincidence, I have also recently read two books that in my view form a tri-fecta of …

Berto Jongman: Fake ISIS Beheading Videos — Blatant False Flag Fraud to Deceive the US Public — PBI Comment on War for the Soul of US Intelligence UPDATED: Bomb Syria or Control Ebola? Duh!

Both beheading videos are questionable. Both were probably made by the same people following the same script and using the same format. I find it strange that the second video was distributed to subscribers of SITE before ISIS itself had the video made public. A SITE analyst had discovered the video on a filesharing site. …

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 …

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 …

Review: Constructing Cassandra – Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001

Milo Jones and Philippe Silberzahn 5.0 out of 5 stars Charming, Recommended for Students, August 20, 2014 I found this book, a gift, to be charming and useful. It should certainly be used as a textbook at the national intelligence university and other mainstream schools. I consider this book a hybrid, one that integrates an …