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False flag terrorism, support for the drug trade, sex trafficking, and torture. Amerikan political tactics. And this was under the good liberal Clinton. People need to study history; we’re seeing the same vicious real politik repeated over and over, and no politician is going to stop it.

via: johnpilger.com

The secrets of the crushing of Yugoslavia are emerging, telling us more about how the modern world is policed. The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, this year published her memoir The Hunt: Me and War Criminals. Largely ignored in Britain, the book reveals unpalatable truths about the west’s intervention in Kosovo, which has echoes in the Caucasus. Continue Reading »

Narco News has a fascinating analysis of FARC’s current situation and their options for the future. While they were once a legitimate revolutionary Marxist organisation, over the years FARC degenerated into a straight narco terrorism, kidnapping operation unbound by any principles. Their options now are limited, but they can choose the path of 4G Warfare and become viable again in the 21st Century. The article has too many links for my to just re-post here. Better to visit Narcosphere directly and read the whole article. This last section (and specifically the last sentence) is the key, though. And worth thinking hard about.

Farc’s Options

The Bazaar

The decentralized, and seemingly chaotic guerrilla war in Iraq demonstrates a pattern that will likely serve as a model for 

next generation terrorists. This pattern shows a level of learning, activity, and success similar to what we see in the open source software community. I call this pattern the bazaar. The bazaar solves the problem: how do small, potentially antagonistic networks combine to conduct war? (…) Here are the factors that apply (from the perspective of the guerrillas):

* Release early and often. Try new forms of attacks against different types of targets early and often. Don't wait for a perfect plan.


* Given a large enough pool of co-developers, any difficult problem will be seen as obvious by someone, and solved. Eventually some 

participant of the bazaar will find a way to disrupt a particularly difficult target. All you need to do is copy the process they used.

* Your co-developers (beta-testers) are your most valuable resource. The other guerrilla networks in the bazaar are your 

most valuable allies. They will innovate on your plans, swarm on weaknesses you identify, and protect you by creating system noise.

* Recognize good ideas from your co-developers. Simple attacks that have immediate and far-reaching impact should be adopted.


* Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away (simplicity). The easier the attack is, the more easily 

it will be adopted. Complexity prevents swarming that both amplifies and protects.

* Tools are often used in unexpected ways. An attack method can often find reuse in unexpected ways.

(The attentive observer will also note that much of this can be applied to non-violent grassroots initiatives, political campaigns and protest movements as well).

I don’t even know what to say about this. It’s happening every day. This is our war; this is how Amerika fights. Kids trained on video games, twisted by pharmaceuticals and armed with the latest weapons of mass destruction. There’s a whole group on LiveLeaks posting videos like this with Kid Rock music and comments like, “Yee Haw! Fuck them towel heads! Look at the pieces fly!” Just wait until the enemy is White Al Queada in America or Suburban Reds. This is coming to a town near you.

We all know the MSM lies, but this has to be the most blatant example since Iraq and the weapons of mass destruction. I’m amazed how many intelligent people think Russia invaded Georgia because they’re only scanning headlines and reading the first few paragraphs of new stories. Also, the BBC has written many of these manipulative stories. It’s just astounding how bold the power elite are these days and how contemptuous they are towards us.

via: BBC

The Bush administration appears to be trying to turn a failed military operation by Georgia into a successful diplomatic operation against Russia.

It is doing so by presenting the Russian actions as aggression and playing down the Georgian attack into South Ossetia on 7 August, which triggered the Russian operation.

Yet the evidence from South Ossetia about that attack indicates that it was extensive and damaging.

Blame game

The BBC’s Sarah Rainsford has reported: “Many Ossetians I met both in Tskhinvali and in the main refugee camp in Russia are furious about what has happened to their city.

“They are very clear who they blame: Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili, who sent troops to re-take control of this breakaway region.”

Human Rights Watch concluded after an on-the-ground inspection: “Witness accounts and the timing of the damage would point to Georgian fire accounting for much of the damage described [in Tskhinvali].” Continue Reading »

via: Middle East Times

The small oil-rich emirate of Kuwait – situated between Iraq, Iran and an un-enviable geographic hard place on the northern end of the Persian Gulf – has reportedly activated its “Emergency War Plan” as a massive U.S. and European armada is reported heading for the region.

Coming on the heels of Operation Brimstone just a week ago that saw U.S., British and French naval forces participate in war games in the Atlantic Ocean, the object of which was to practice enforcing an eventual blockade on Iran, the joint task force is now headed for the Gulf and what could easily turn into a major confrontation with Iran.

The naval force comprises a U.S. Navy super carrier battle group and is accompanied by an expeditionary carrier battle group, a British Royal Navy carrier battle group and a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine.

Leading the pack is the nuclear-powered carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt and its Carrier Strike Group Two; besides its 80-plus combat planes the Roosevelt normally transports, it is carrying an additional load of French Naval Rafale fighter jets from the French carrier Charles de Gaulle, currently in dry dock.

Also reported heading toward Iran is another nuclear-powered carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan and its Carrier Strike Group Seven; the USS Iwo Jima, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal and a number of French warships, including the nuclear hunter-killer submarine Amethyste.

Once the naval force arrives in the Gulf region it will be joining two other U.S. naval battle groups already on site: the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Peleliu; the Lincoln with its carrier strike group and the latter with an expeditionary strike group. Continue Reading »

via: Al Jazeera English

The US has had stern words for Russia over its military intervention in Georgia to back South Ossietian separatists, but many analysts say that the Bush administration must share the blame for the crisis.

Washington has formed a close bond with the government of Mikheil Saakashvili since he came to power in the 2003 ‘Rose Revolution,’ offering military and economic aid and encouraging Georgia to join Nato.

Jon Sawyer, the director for the Pulitzer Centre for Crisis Reporting, said US politicians had encouraged their Georgian counterparts to think they had the backing of the US when Tbilisi decided to launch its attack on South Ossetia last week.

“The US has for several years now mishandled the situation in Georgia,” he told Al Jazeera.

“The way that Mikheil Saakashvili has approached this [has been by] thinking that he could be an extension of the west, a partner of the United States.” Continue Reading »

via: Times Online

US aircraft have started to fly some of Georgia’s 2,000 troops in Iraq back home to join the fight in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq said today.

“The flights are ongoing to redeploy the elements of the Georgian contingent so that they can deal with the security issues in their country,” General Petraeus told The Times in an interview at his office inside Baghdad’s Green Zone.

He said measures were already in place to mitigate the impact on operations in Iraq of the sudden departure of the soldiers.

“We can accommodate that. Obviously it was not expected but it is something, the effects of which we can certainly mitigate.”

Unexpected. Yeah right!

via: In These Times

Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@

By Joel Bleifuss | 1.27.03

VONNEGUT: “I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka “Christians,” and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or “PPs.”

To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete’s foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. Read it! PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!

And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country, and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And so many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick.

What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can’t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody’s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!”

See also: Twilight of the Psychopaths

via: Think Progress

This revelation is both noteworthy and totally unsurprising.

Seymore Hersh: There was a meeting. Among the items considered and rejected — which is why the New Yorker did not publish it, on grounds that it wasn’t accepted — one of the items was why not…

There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives.

And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.

and an update to the article

In one of David Manning’s famous memos describing a prewar meeting between George Bush and Tony Blair, he says that Bush admitted that WMD was unlikely to be found in Iraq and then mused on some possible options for justifying a war anyway:

"The U.S. was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in U.N. colours," 

the memo says, attributing the idea to Mr. Bush. “If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach.”

Oh and 9/11. That was one of the false flag events they decided to run with. And the USS Liberty, and Gulf of Tonkin. And Pearl Harbor and the Lusitania to a slightly lesser degree. Standard operating proceedure

OK, so seriously here, just for the record: we don’t attack McCain simply because it’s not worth the effort. There’s nothing edgy about attacking neo-cons or declaring the Republicans are corrupt bastards. Now, attacking the Left, that’s the sacred cow to burn. And for the record: I would fucking love to see a black president. Bobby Seale could run and I’d wave his banner with pride. Hell, I’d be happier if Obama’s ex-reverend wanted to run. I’d be happy if any black (or brown) man (or woman) ran who was genuinely angry about Amerikan racism and willing to admit (declare!) that.