SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 1 September 2009

Hot Topics AA: ARMOR: Improvised Armor In South America 08/29/09 AA: Falkland/Malvinas experience repeatedly recalled in Unasur summit 08/30/09 AA: Latin American Physical Security Market Growing: Report 08/31/09 AA: Mexico and Argentina move towards decriminalising drugs 08/31/09 CO: “An eternal battle against oblivion” 08/31/09 CO: Meeting a Girl FARC Guerrilla in Bogotá 08/29/09 GT: Malnutrition …

Journal: 9-11 Truth Movement–Hanging Fire, Still Explosive

THE STORY BEHIND 9/11: HIT OR MYTH? TAKING ON THE TRUTHERS By MAXINE SHEN August 28, 2009 Read Full Story Online First.  Then below Response (provided here because original is behind a Facebook Password Access page).: The 9/11 Official Story Runs Out of Steam? by Sander Hicks (pictured in insert by Post at right) (NEW …

Journal: US Foreign Policy Toward Honduras Uninformed, Intrusive, Embarassing

US prepares further sanctions against Honduras Phi Beta Iota: This borders on infantile idiocy.  Honduras has a Supreme Court ruling against the ousted President.  What we have here is the US still having a big stick but having lost its mind.  The Department of State is either embarrassingly stupid, or so politicized that ideological bullies …

Journal: Loch Johnson on It’s Never a Quick Fix at the CIA

Professor Loch Johnson is one of two people who have served on both the Church Committee and the Aspin-Brown Commission.  The other is Britt Snider, Esquire. Today he examines the lack of integrity on the Hill, or totthless, inattentive oversight.  He does not address two factors that we comment on below the fold: 1.  There …