James Bamford has done it again. Update: Hey, I'm serious, read this.

If our "servants" had just dedicated a few spooks and a few thousand Marines, the enemy would've been wiped out at Tora Bora. If Libertarian Party candidate Harry Browne had won the election of 2000, September 11th probably wouldn't have happened at all. The Terrorists

Harpers By Ken Silverstein. Sources There's much discussion of putting a multinational, NATO-led force in southern Lebanon as part of a ceasefire agreement in the Israel

"Russia's a big country and you're a big country." Isn't their an algorithm or something that explains the declining quality of the cheif executive as the size of the empire grows?

From the London Times: "Three young girls and a disabled man were among 16 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip today."

Nir Rosen on his time in Iraq: The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds "I believe that any journalist who spent even a brief period embedded with American soldiers must have witnessed crimes being committed against innocent Iraqis, so I have always been baffled by how few were reported and how skeptically the Western media treated Arabic reports of such crimes. These crimes were not committed because Americans are bad or malicious; they were intrinsic to the occupation, and even if the Girl...

The KAOS Report is on today at 5:00 pm Texas time. That's 6 in the East, and 3 in the West. 92.7 and 95.9FM if you live in Austin. Otherwise, click KAOS959.com to stream.

The police state wanted them all to be undercover snitches. When they refused, Hell rained down on them. Will Grigg's x-ray eyes here.

By Ken Silverstein Harpers "I've learned from two sources that some senior figures at the CIA, along with a number of Iraq analysts, have been pushing to produce a new NIE. They've been stonewalled, however, by John Negroponte, the administration's Director of National Intelligence, who knows that any honest take on the situation would produce an NIE even more pessimistic than the 2004 version. That could create problems on the Hill and, if it is leaked as the last one was, with the public as...

Say it ain't so. Lawyers for 4 Accused Soldiers Say They Acted on Orders "On the morning of May 9, a group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division arrived in a remote desert area of western Iraq for a dangerous mission: taking out an insurgent training camp. What happened then has become the subject of intense dispute. Military prosecutors last month accused four soldiers in the unit of releasing three Iraqi men they captured that day, only to kill them. The soldiers have been charged...

John Stewart does a little comparison/contrast. Via Crooks

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Iraq's Bloody July by Robert Dreyfuss

Before the U.S. House of Representatives, July 20, 2006: I rise in opposition to this resolution, which I sincerely believe will do more harm than good. I do agree with the resolution's condemnation of violence. But I am convinced that when we get involved in foreign conflicts and send strong messages, such as this resolution will, it ends up expanding the war rather than diminishing the conflict, and that ultimately comes back to haunt us. Mr. Speaker, I follow a policy in foreign affairs...