Reference: 2014 Declassified CIA Documents

Studies in Intelligence: A Digest of Declassified CIA Documents For the benefit of researchers, Lawfare has reviewed and digested documents released in September of 2014 by the Central Intelligence Agency. The bulk of the materials hail from the CIA’s in-house intelligence journal, Studies in Intelligence. We have grouped the documents in rough thematic fashion and, within …

Robert Steele: Electoral Reform Before Supreme Court (One Tiny Piece)

Election reform is on the line at the Supreme Court SUPREME COURT observers focused on the Affordable Care Act case this week. But the justices heard arguments Monday in another case with potentially major implications for the country’s proper functioning: a dispute over whether voters can break the self-serving system in which state politicians manipulate …

Friends of Europe: Not Friendly, Not Thoughtful — Comment by Robert Steele

Friends of Europe (€2,281,515 a year budget) is delighted to send you the report of its last Security Jam, launched today at a debate with General Philip Breedlove, NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and Ambassador Alain Le Roy, incoming Secretary General of the European External Action Service. European Union and NATO leaders must act …

Owl: Assassination in Russia — False Flag? NeoCon Money & Russian FSB Renegades? WWIII?

Good News and Bad News: WWW3 Will be a Short War Alexey Navalny, a major opposition leader to Putin, was murdered in Russia, and likely he was a victim of a false flag planned and executed by Western neocons. As Wayne Madsen commented, “Neocons issue their demands for “regime change” in Russia, minutes after Boris …

Chuck Spinney: Balanced Assessment of Ukraine

Jonathan Steele reviews Richard Sakwa’s important new book, “Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands.” Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa review – an unrivalled account At last, a balanced assessment of the Ukrainian conflict – the problems go far beyond Vladimir Putin Jonathan Steele, Guardian, 19 February 2015 05.29 EST