David Swanson: 1939 Essay Predicted Hitler, Predicts US Dictatorship

The Global War on Terror, in the Original German By David Swanson In 1939, Sebastian Haffner sat down and wrote a pre-history of Nazism. Nazism had not been inevitable. It had not progressed steadily without setbacks. But it had been growing for many years, even before the name for it existed. It had been coming …

Steven Aftergood: Jesselyn Radack as “Traitor” or Whistleblower – the Death of Ethics Across the Entire US Government

“TRAITOR,” A WHISTLEBLOWER’S TALE Jesselyn Radack’s memoir Traitor: The Whistleblower and the American Taliban presents the moving story of a young attorney’s unexpected encounter with official misconduct, and the excruciating ordeal that ensued when she decided to challenge it. In 2001, Ms. Radack was a Justice Department attorney and specialist in legal ethics.  In response …

Mini-Me: CIA Chief Lawyer on CIA Authorities to Use Force Around the World

Huh? CIA General Counsel Speech on Hypothetical Uses of Force by Deborah Pearlstein Opinio Juris, 12 April 2012 The speech delivered by CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston at Harvard yesterday is important and illuminating, and I agree with Ken the administration should be commended for it. But wow does it raise some troubling questions about …

Paul Craig Roberts: ObamaCare — and TSA Searching Traffic on Easter Sunday

What is ObamaCare? Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to live in the strange Kafkaesque world that exists today. The US government can assassinate any US citizen that the executive branch thinks could possibly be a “threat” to the US government, or throw the hapless citizen into …

2012 Reality Sandwich: The Battle for the Soul of the Republic

The Battle for the Soul of the Republic Reality Sandwich, 10 April 2012 Robert David Steele Vivas The National Security Agency (NSA) mega-data center, combined with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) special relationship with Google, and the federalization of local police using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds to pay for monitoring both the locations …

Chuck Spinney: Goodbye Occupy – Political Engineering the Police State — Strip-Searching as Symptom

The politics of fear in insecurity are now the staple of American politics.  They were used habitually during  the Cold War to create powerful vested interests in a permanent war economy.  These interests are clearly reflected in the pattern of political practices of the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) that maintains and increases …

Marcus Aurelius: Living in an Upside Down Land – Email from O-6 USMC

Following is circulating among military circles via email. From:  REDACTED [USMC O-6 Retired]< We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress & the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, But overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln “… there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither, Safe, nor Politically …