Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Army Launches Sweeping Review of PTSD Diagnoses ISIS: Iran’s foreign minister established clandestine nuclear program in the 90s Syrian Jihadis: Real and Exaggerated Targeted Killing in the U.S. War on Terror: Effective Tool or Double-Edged Sword Terrorism Bookshelf: Top 150 Books on Terrorism and Counterterrorism TESTIMONY:  Iran Sanctions: Strategy, Implementation and Enforcement The Story of …

David Swanson: Veterans for Peace Call for End to NATO

Veterans For Peace Calls for an End to NATO By Veterans For Peace Veterans for Peace works for the abolition of war, and while that process will take many steps, one that should be taken immediately is the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO has always been a war-making institution lacking in accountability …

Penguin: US/UK Perpetuate Soviet False Flag Model + Meta-RECAP

Phillip Knightley: When is a terror threat not a terror threat? Let’s ask a man called Felix… All intelligence services rely on convincing the public there is a monster at large waiting to grab them The British undercover agent in the underpants bomb plot that has emerged so sensationally in recent days, was recruited using …

Reference: Defense and Energy Deficit Reduction: $688 Billion

POGO Source Page, May 8, 2012 Wasteful Spending in the Department of Defense Budget Wasteful Spending on Nuclear Weapons Programs Service Contracts Conclusion Endnotes Americans are tightening their belts, and it’s time for the U.S. government to do the same. In light of the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the subsequent failure of the “Super Committee,” …

David Isenberg: Thomas Powers on Ike Eisenhower – He Got the Big Things Right

He Got the Big Things Right Thomas Powers New York Times, April 26, 2012 Eisenhower: The White House Years by Jim Newton Doubleday, 451 pp., $29.95 Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith Random House, 950 pp., $40.00 Bettmann/Corbis When the youngest man to be elected president of the United States was inaugurated …

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Bombing at the Speed of Thought: Intelligence in the Coming Age of Cyberwar (2003) For Israel’s elite army intel unit, errors of the past send a spying eye into the future Hitlerland: Andrew Nagorski discusses Hitler’s rise to power and Nazi Germany as seen through the eyes of Americans—diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes—who …