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Chemical weapons in Syria: Whodunnit? 27 Aug 2013 | 08:44 am
Well, John Kerry may have achieved his "Colin Powell at the UN" moment... In some of the administration’s most strident language, Mr. Kerry accused the Syrian government of cynically seeking to cover...
Everything old is new again 27 Aug 2013 | 12:18 am
Have you noticed the trend? All sorts of old spook news is being presented as if it were new spook news. The latest example is a Foreign Policy story hidden behind a pay wall. The headline (by way of ...
Syria 26 Aug 2013 | 09:17 am
I think Booman is turning against Obama based on this Syrian "inspection for chemical weapons" BS. If Booman has finally had it with the guy...well. That's like Ann Coulter finally admitting that McCa...
Spooks, war, financial skullduggery, Assange and Windows 8 26 Aug 2013 | 04:22 am
Gotta move quickly... That secret listening post. I thought that the preceding post -- which identifies the probable location of the secret base in the Middle East maintained by GCHQ (Britain's NSA) ...
GC-Wiki and the location of that secret base in the Middle East 24 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
First, some housekeeping chores: After you read this piece, please check out the remarkable revelation in the preceding article about the death of Michael Hastings. The story below that introduces the...
Hastings thought someone had tampered with his car 24 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
I didn't want to crowd out the preceding post so soon, because the topic is important and I even did a spot of original research on the GC-Wiki thing. So please go read the post below this one. And wh...
The Game of Spooks 24 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
The Independent published a startling story revealing a secret British surveillance effort -- involving undersea fiber optic cables -- in the Middle East. The Independent goes to great lengths to giv...
Bales, Manning, Afghanistan 23 Aug 2013 | 08:09 am
Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the man blamed for an infamous massacre in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan (the 16 victims include men, women and children), is facing sentencing. His lawyer has aske...
The prom 23 Aug 2013 | 07:42 am
I'm still too frazzled to put together a proper post, but I wanted to jot down a thought. What follows is fluff. This blog usually reserves non-political trivia for the weekend -- but this week, the w...
You need a vacation 22 Aug 2013 | 10:35 am
Okay, I admit it. My brain is too frazzled (by some stuff completely unrelated to blogging or politics or anything of that sort) to sort through all of the NSA-related material that happened yesterday...
