Review (Guest): A Manufactured Crisis – The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

Gareth Porter Review By Peter Jenkins @ Lobelog The subtitle of Gareth Porter’s new book, The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, is well-chosen. Large parts of A Manufactured Crisis are indeed untold till now. They amount to what the author terms an “alternative narrative”. But don’t be misled by “alternative”. This is not …

4th Media: John Walsh on Prosperous China Implications for the USA

A Prosperous China vs An Imperial US JOHN V. WALSH | Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 11:31 Beijing China has stated its goals quite unambiguously. “A moderately prosperous society by 2020” is the first goal and “a strong socialist nation by 2049” as the second. But this may be simplified: China’s leadership wants its people to …

Berto Jongman: Atrocities Etcetera + Best of Ukraine 1.7

9/11: CIA black operation murders Philip Marshall? (Wayne Madsen) BITCOIN: arrest of operators of two exchanges BOOK: Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict CHINA: annual urban exodus tracked by Baida CONGO: ambush of commander CONGO: situation worsening CYBER: cash registers – crime wave

4th Media: US Government Arms and Protects Sinaloa Cartel’s Control of 80% of US Cocaine — Based in — Wait for It — Chicago

Nations Largest Cocaine Smuggler Revealed: The DEA Newly released documents, and testimony from Justice Department and DEA officials now show the stories of government running cocaine are true. An investigation conducted in Mexico found the American government allowed that country’s largest drug cartel, Sinaloa, to operate without fear of persecution. That groups is estimated to …

Owl: Ralph Nader on Internet Wrongful Secrecy, Snares and Delusions

Expect to Get “Mice Print” or Little or Nothing When Looking for Public Information Ralph Nader debunks a major myth about the Internet: the assumption that government and important public information is accessible or easily so. As he shows, in many cases, not so at all: “Information technology (IT), now the supplier of millions of …

Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.4

ATROCITIES: risks of state-led mass killing AUSTRALIA: Terrorists taking cut of millions in drug money BIG DATA: predictive algorythms and virtues of transparancy CAR: CAR risks spiralling into genocide CHINA: 37,000 Elite Offshore Accounts Outed, China Reacts to Protect Them and Censor the Story CHINA: How Its Leader — Now the World’s Most Powerful Man …