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Kerry signals US Intervention in Syria, but to What End? 27 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
Secretary of State John Kerry strongly suggested in remarks on Monday that President Obama has concluded that the ruling Baath regime in Syria was responsible for poison gas attacks last Wednesday tha...
Gulf Arab Press Condemns Alleged ‘Bloody’ Chemical Weapons attack in Syria (OSC) 27 Aug 2013 | 09:07 am
The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases comment in the Gulf Arab press on the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Baathist regime. Note that these governmental establishments ar...
Top 13 Surveillance Secrets the Gov’t Doesn’t want You to Know About (Quigley) 26 Aug 2013 | 02:33 pm
Bill Quigley writes at Commondreams.org “We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted…the Patriot Act. As we see it, there is no...
Not Markets but the People are making the Green Energy Revolution 26 Aug 2013 | 09:57 am
The propaganda against the green energy revolution contains all the same predictable elements as the propaganda against anti-slavery movements or later against anti-tobacco findings. We are told that...
Obama’s Limited Options: Bombing Syria unlikely to be Effective 25 Aug 2013 | 12:39 pm
As pressure on President Obama to bomb Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons ramps up, it is worth revisiting parts of a post I did last June in response to a similar push by the Clintons. It...
Does the World Care? 1 Mn Syrian Children Refugees & Aid Money Running Out 25 Aug 2013 | 11:02 am
The Syrian conflict has produced a massive refugee problem, and it reached a new level of horror this week with news that the UN High Commission on Refugees estimates that there are a million children...
NSA abuses include Stalking ex-Girlfriends 24 Aug 2013 | 10:31 am
We have HUMINT, or human intelligence gathered from agents. We have SIGINT or signals intelligence. And now we have LOVEINT or NSA analysts occasionally reading the emails of ex-lovers. It doesn’t hap...
Obama wants all the info in your Smart Phone without a Warrant (Lazare) 24 Aug 2013 | 09:11 am
Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams.org Amid ongoing controversy over NSA warrantless spying programs, another legal battle exposes the Obama administration’s willingness to steamroll civil liberties...
Is the US Government the Managing Committee of the Pirate Banks? 23 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
Greg Palast at Vice exposes the way that Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and others in the Treasury Department conspired with JP Morgan and other pirate investment banks not only to destroy Glass-Steagall...
Must US Aid to Egypt be Cut Off? (Wang & Meyer) 23 Aug 2013 | 09:03 am
Marian Wang and Theodoric Meyer write at ProPublica Questions about the United States’ aid to Egypt have intensified in the wake of last month’s military coup. More than 1,000 Egyptians have been kil...
