Chuck Spinney: Toxic Alliance – Neo-Cons and “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) War-mongers

This email continues the theme I introduced with How Obama’s Rhetoric Reinforces America’s Grand Strategic Pathway to Catastrophe. Attached beneath my introduction is an brilliant essay, The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, written by Robert Parry of Consortium News.  Parry describes how propaganda produced by this domestic alliance of convenience among a non-representative minority of unelected influence peddlers …

WInslow Wheeler: An Inadequate Defense Budget? Or Incompetent Authorization & Appropriations Personalities?

An Inadequate Defense Budget?    Compared to Whom?   Compared to When? Many Republicans and numerous Democrats, especially on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, have been characterizing the US defense budget as inadequate.  They propose to release the Pentagon from the statutory spending caps set by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and its “sequestration,” …

Owl: Did an Electro-Magnetic Pulse Bomb Take Down the Malaysian Airlines Flight to China?

Did a Non-Nuclear Electro Magnetic Pulse Weapon Take Down Flight 370? This article poses the theory that Flight 370 was taken down by a non-nuclear portable EMP device to work as a dry run for more future and large coordinated attacks against cities. This type of attack in essence fries the electronics of jets and …