Joseph Stiglitz: The True Cost of 9/11 — Includes 18 Veteran Suicides a Day

The True Cost of 9/11 Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, a weaker America. By Joseph E. Stiglitz Slate, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011 The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by al-Qaida were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama Bin Laden probably never imagined. President …

Koko: CIA and Libyan Intelligence VERY Close, Including Rendition–meanwhile Fran Townsend Excels at Being a Vacuous Bimbo

Koko Sign:  Who is this blond vacuous bimbo that keeps appearing on television with nothing serious to say?  Yes, we gorillas know that vacuous bimbo is a tautalogical redundancy, it just seemed appropriate. Documents shed light on CIA, Gadhafi spy ties From Ben Wedeman, CNN September 3, 2011 7:15 p.m. EDT Includes video. Tripoli, Libya …

Review: Top Secret America – The Rise of the New American Security State

Dana Priest and William M. Arkin 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Stars–A Nation-Changing Public Mind Opener of a Book,September 2, 2011 I generally take a very jaundiced view of books that emerge from Washington Post columns I have already read, but this book surprised, engages, and out-performs the columns by such a leap that …

Reference: US Secret Intelligence, US Banks, Illicit Gold, Murder of the Global Economy, RECAP

The memorandum “Collateral Damage: U.S. Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001” has been circulating for years on the Internet, studiously ignored by most.  It was previously posted as a journal item on this website.  Since then, the public has learned a great deal more about both gold and greed, and the …