David Maxwell: U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Philippines, 2001–2014 (Rand)

Robinson, Linda, Patrick B. Johnston and Gillian S. Oak. U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Philippines, 2001–2014. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2016. This report examines the 14-year experience of U.S. special operations forces in the Philippines from 2001 through 2014. The objective of this case history is to document and evaluate the activities and …

Event: 26 Oct NPC DC Wayne Madsen Releases the New Directory of CIA Front Companies

DINNER on Thursday, Oct 26th at the McLendon Room at the NPC at 6:00 pm, Wayne Madsen will release the new directory of CIA Front Companies.  Those who buy dinner may listen free (price of the room). Those who do not buy dinner will be renditioned to Uzbeckistan where rooms are still available in the …

Neil Keenan: Gold War – The Global Financial System Is About To Shift

The Global Financial System Is About To Shift In August of 2011, myself and a very powerful political associate arranged a secret meeting of 57 global finance ministers (none from any Western nations) aboard a yacht in Monaco for the purpose of setting up a new worldwide, asset-backed financial system. Within several months, the agreement realized from that …

Mongoose: $540M for Fake News? How Much Open Source Intelligence Could That Buy for Special Operations Forces?

Pentagon paid PR firm 540mn to make fake terrorist videos The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.   . . .    The firm created television ads showing Al-Qaeda in a negative light …

Antechinus: CIA Killed OSINT at Birth — 80% of “OSINT” Studies are Bullshit

Further to the Phi Beta Iota comments on the mistaken limitation of OSINT to passive monitoring of web sites and such…. Prevalent approaches to countering ‘radicalisation’ ineffective, conceptually flawed “A lack of research based on primary sources has been one of the major impediments to progress in the field of (counter-) terrorism studies… As numerous …

Lance Schuttler: Ex-CIA Spy Calls For IRS, Federal Reserve To Be Abolished and An Electoral Reform Act Passed

Ex-CIA Spy Calls For IRS, Federal Reserve To Be Abolished and An Electoral Reform Act Passed Robert David Steele is no stranger to telling things how they simply are. And just this past week, he has once again made several paradigm-shifting statements that is bound to get the attention of many throughout the world. In …