Informants in our midst
I live in a beautiful racially mixed neighborhood in LA. A long time ago this was the first Beverly Hills, mansions and limos. Then the city grew all around it and white flight turned it into the...
View ArticleBugs inside and out
As part of my initiation into the secrets of Los Angeles, which are many and storied, which has taken place over the years of my exile here, I have found that there are these bugs in LA that the...
View ArticleThe American nation and the World Empire
There is a continuous tension between the United States of America, the most successful and most populous of the settler states planted by European imperialists around the world, and America's central...
View ArticleTAKING A STAND AGAINST COCK PICS
The time has come for all decent human beings to take a stand. Let us speak with one voice -- no more cock pics. I'm not calling for the cock pic to resign their official positions, to stop playing...
View ArticleSomalia and the state of the Long War under the Democrats
Since his inauguration, Obama has waged a different style of war than his predecessor. There is a marked preference for strikes by CIA controlled drone aircraft crossing international boundaries...
View ArticleThe myth of the Nazis
In modern Western society, there is no worse political slur than Nazi. In Europe any positive reference to the Nazi regime or any disagreement with the official myths on that era are illegal.The Nazi...
View ArticleWitnessing the death of triangulation
The Obama Administration has been trying to govern according to the old DLC triangulation theories, which provide that that progressive ideas are too scary for the American public and that each and...
View ArticleFBI agents and SWAT teams raiding peace activists' homes across the country
sometimes I come across a news item that makes even an inveterate cynic like myself want to vote. Today, in Minnesota, Illinois, North Carolina, SWAT teams forced entry into the homes of American...
View ArticleA Youtube kind of war
Living so deep within the imperial web, behind so many layers of propaganda and paranoia, it is difficult to comprehend that there is somewhere still opposition to the power structure. The tendency on...
View ArticleIGTNT's attempt to declare itself holy ground
Before the advent of militant monotheism cut down all the holy groves of Hellas and the dark fire caverns of Persia, the world was dotted with sanctified ground upon which no combat could take place...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan's Crisis May Become an Early Test of the Shanghai Cooperation...
The nation of Kyrgyzstan entered a period of extreme instability when its previous government was overthrown. For a few weeks, the change of government appeared to be successful, as a provisional...
View ArticleThe two faces of COIN in Afghanistan's "last offensive"
As the Obama Administration tripled the number of combat troops in Afghanistan, their mission has been repeatedly redefined. The latest version calls for a major offensive to be launched in Kandahar...
View ArticleBlessed Are the Warriors
An accusation frequently hurled at the Terrorists is that they use the religion of Islam to justify their violent, thoroughly anti-Islamic actions. The right wing militarists suggest that this is no...
View ArticleFree Company, a history of terrible freedom - Part Three, the Catalan Grand...
In 1305 the Catalan Company, a free association of Western European adventurers and their families, who were hired to fight the Turks on behalf of the Byzantine Empire, found themselves in a terrible...
View ArticleFree Company, a history of terrible freedom - Part Two, the Catalan Grand...
If you passed by the first installment, you haven’t missed much. It’s a history about some medieval mercenaries told to illustrate what greatness and what depths of depravity free men can accomplish...
View ArticleAfghanistan: winning the war of perceptions
Pres. Obama and his top commanders Gens. Petraeus and Gen. McChrystal believe that the War on Terror is a "war of perceptions." In a struggle between a superpower and small loosely linked bands of...
View ArticleFree Company, a history of terrible freedom - Part One, the Catalan...
This series is devoted to the historical phenomenon known as "free companies," Vikings, pirates, freebooters or filibusters, all of which terms refer to voluntary stateless corporations that sprang up...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Impotent Demon
There once lived a father whose daughter grew gravely ill. He was a poor man, and the necessary treatment was out of his means. He desperately tried to get the money, but could not. Out of options, he...
View ArticleChronicles of the Good War: Demonstrating the Will to Win
Much attention is paid on this site to the brutality visited upon Iranian protesters by security forces, particularly when the soldiers go so far as to fire live rounds at the crowd. The world knows...
View ArticleThe collpase of the USSR and the lessons it holds for those seeking freedom...
Around this time in a Democratic administration, the progressives and various other lefties start complaining and losing their illusions after yet another Democrat turns out to be a staunch defender of...
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