In Time, Ian Bremmer makes a key point about the 2020 presidential election. The U.S. policymaking elite (“the blob”) and its militarized interventionist foreign policy is threatened by popular rejection. According to a recent poll, substantial majorities of both Democrats and Republicans want to put the era of Endless War behind us. No matter what party they...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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Watching UFOs, DIA Studied How to Get Invisible
Intelligence agencies are known for asking seemingly crazy questions like: “How do you make something disappear?” In March 2010, the Defense Intelligence Agency published a paper attempting to answer that question. It was called “Invisibility Cloaking: Theory and Experiments.” It was prepared for the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. (AATIP) These are the people who...
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Antiwar.com: Why Trump Is Trying to Link Iran with al-Qaeda
In a city of unwieldly acronyms AUMF is the least pronounceable–and perhaps most important. AUMF stands for Authorization for Use of Military Force. It is the legal justification for the endless wars that the US is fighting in 40 percent of the world’s countries. (Source is solid: Watson Institute at Brown University) Antiwar.com has the...
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Facebook Praises the MEK, an Iranian Cult Movement Known for Killing U.S. Citizens
Facebook has a foreign policy, and it seems to skew toward Israel and Iranian crackpots. Last month, the social media giant announced that (with the advice of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab [DFRLab]) it had removed 783 assets — pages, groups, and accounts — that the company assessed to be associated with an Iran-based network for “coordinated inauthentic...
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Israel’s Mossad Joins India’s R&AW Seeking to Finish Masood Azhar
RAW stands for Research and Analysis Wing, which is India’s version of the CIA, it s foreign intelligence service. Masood Azhar is the founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed, the fundamentalist Islamic group that recently struck with deadly effect in Kashmir. India is looking for help from Israel’s Mossad and Israel is glad to provide it. Because of...