Review (Guest): BREACH OF TRUST – How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

Andrew J. Bacedvich A disturbing but vitally necessary read. Take note, Mr President, and Congress too By Timothy J. Bazzett on September 10, 2013 Andrew Bacevich’s latest offering, BREACH OF TRUST, is going to make a lot of people squirm – if people read it, that is. Because in this book he tells us flat …

Andy Piascik: Crimes Against Humanity: Why Is Henry Kissinger Walking Around Free?

Crimes Against Humanity: Why Is Henry Kissinger Walking Around Free? Andy Piascik Two months ago, hundreds of thousands of Chileans somberly marked the 40th anniversary of their nation’s September 11th terrorist event. It was on that date in 1973 that the Chilean military, armed with a generous supply of funds and weapons from the United States, …

Jesse Ventura: On the Air About JFK Assassination

Jesse Ventura on JFK Assassination The Unexplained (Podcast) Edition 132 Discusses Richard Nixon saying Warren Commission was biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people, and death-bed confession of E. Howard Hunt including entire CIA chain of command in support of the assassination. Discusses CIA use of fast-moving cancer to attempt to kill Castro, to …

Berto Jongman: How the Sunni-Shia schism is dividing the world — while a retarded US Government spins its wheels and remains clueless….

How the Sunni-Shia schism is dividing the world The unprecedented Saudi refusal to take up its Security Council seat is not just about Syria but a response to the Iranian threat Robert Fisk The Independent, 23 October 2013 The Muslim world’s historic – and deeply tragic – chasm between Sunni and Shia Islam is having …

Philip Giraldi: Intelligence Analysts Threaten to Quit Over Syria, Force Clapper and Brennan to Back Down?

Quitting Over Syria: Forcing Both Brennan And Clapper To Back Down From Attacking A number of [intelligence] analysts threatened to resign as a group if their strong dissent was not noted in any report released to the public, forcing both Brennan and Clapper to back down. The release of the White House “Government Assessment” on …

Penguin: Our Veterans, Our Blood, Our Soul

This captures my continuing anguish. How American Troops in Afghanistan became Unreal (Jones) Ann Jones writes at Tomdispath.com Informed Comment Posted on 11/08/2013 by Juan Cole The last time I saw American soldiers in Afghanistan, they were silent. Knocked out by gunfire and explosions that left them grievously injured, as well as drugs administered by …

Marcus Aurelius: Five Takeaways from a Decade of War [Defense One] Plus Blistering Alternative View from Phi Beta Iota Editors

Five Takeaways from a Decade of War Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, in a keynote address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this week, signaled to military commanders that they should assume the across-the-board, automatic spending cuts imposed by sequester over the next decade will remain in place indefinitely. “We do not have …