David Wood: Obama Drone War ‘Kill Chain’ Imposes Heavy Burden At Home

Obama Drone War ‘Kill Chain’ Imposes Heavy Burden At Home Huffington Post, 5 May 2013 EXTRACT: In Afghanistan, the military struck at targets 494 times last year with armed drones, according to data that has since been removed from the Air Forces Central Command website. Information on the number of Afghan civilians killed in these …

Chuck Spinney & Philip Giraldi: CIA Drones for Corrupt Regimes

Note that in addition to propping up Quisling centers at expense of the tribal periphery, we  will be fanning the fires of the sectarian warfare and killing gobs of innocents with more signature strikes (note dependency on “technical collection”). Drones for “Regime Protection” The CIA’s insurance plan for Karzai and Maliki—and what it means for …

Search: tactical versus strategic intelligence + Meta-RECAP

An important question — the USA no longer does strategic intelligence and it has never done Whole of Government operational or tactical intelligence.  The $60B secret world is largely worthless at all four levels of analysis: STRATEGIC:  Next Generation near, 100 years our far OPERATIONAL:  Whole of Government regional and threat/topic based campaign plans, harmonized …

Berto Jongman: Jeremy Scahill – The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen

Being watched in Europe. Jeremy Scahill: The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen CLICK FOR FIRST HOUR VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO The Obama administration’s assassination of two U.S. citizens in 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old Denver-born son Abdulrahman, is a central part of Jeremy Scahill’s new book, “Dirty Wars: …

Michael Brenner: Is CIA a National Liability?

The C.I.A.: A National Liability? Michael Brenner Senior Fellow, the Center for Transatlantic Relations; Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh Huffington Post, 22 April 2013 The errant actions of the C.I.A. are by now so evident that they are a staple of Washington conversation. Like the weather, though, it is the topic everybody talks …

Eagle: Banks & Foreclosures As Financial Terrorism – Enabled by Out of Control Corrupt Judges

Here is an example of human lives and costs of those “judges” who have no more authority to judge a ham sandwich than their fellow man. The banks and their ilk are engaged in domestic terrorism against the American people. This is enabled by an out of control corrupt judicial system — with Maryland and …