4th Media: Syria is Obama’s Iraq — Money Talks, Lies Abound, Only the Poor Die

  Syria Is Becoming Obama’s Iraq: In Perfect Bush-like Fashion, President Obama Too … In perfect Bush-like fashion, President Obama has invented a bogus pretense for military intervention in yet another Middle East country. The president’s claim that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons — and thus crossed Obama’s imaginary “red line” — will likely …

Review: Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror

Paul Vallely and Thomas McInerney 1.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guide to Morons in Power, June 19, 2013 This is the single best book for understanding what morons in power think when they pretend to think but are actually pursuing ideological and financial objectives far removed from the public interest. The authors, who demonstrate …

Chuck Spinney: Imperial Idiocy Wrecks Middle East (Fruits of Treason) — End of Sykes-Picot Betrayal, Five Inter-Mixed Conflicts, Return of the Tribes

Patrick Cockburn has written a very important essay on Syria in the London Review of Books (attached below).  The essay is aptly titled but has only a few oblique, albeit important, references to Sykes – Picot Agreement, a document some readers may not familiar with.  Let’s begin with a little background. The Sykes-Picot agreement (it …

Berto Jongman: CIA Officer Sues Agency Over ‘War Crimes’ Probe

Exclusive: CIA Officer Sues Agency Over ‘War Crimes’ Probe John Hudson  Foreign Policy, Thursday, June 13, 2013  A new lawsuit brought by a current CIA officer hints at the existence of a secret overseas paramilitary operation that triggered war crimes allegations, The Cable has learned. On Friday, “John Doe,” an undercover paramilitary officer will file …

Jim Fetzer: Can the Ghost of JFK Save Obama, Call Out Papa Bush, & Expose Texas’Treason? + LBJ-Texas-CIA Assassination RECAP

JFK 50th: The keys to understanding his assassination On 22 November 2013, the Oswald Innocence Campaign will be hosting the premiere event to commemorate the 50th observance of the JFK assassination. Presenting cutting-edge research on the death of our 35th President that holds the keys to understanding what took place, it will feature some of …

Stuart Herrington: Snowden Unlikely to Wow Chinese — PBI Comment: A Self-Dangle? Or a Chinese IO Coup Recruited in Hawaii to Castrate Obama for Xi Meeting?

Why I don’t think Snowden is, or will become, a Chinese intelligence asset By Stuart Herrington Foreign Policy, 11 June 2013 Unless he was an asset of the Chinese or some other foreign intelligence service prior to “coming out” as he did, I don’t think it’s likely any foreign intel service is going to latch …