50 State Dept. “diplomats” have signed onto some memo agitating for all-out war against Syria’s Assad.  So far Obama has withstood the calls for another war with a Third World power, but now John Kerry is lining up behind the pro-war faction.  What in God’s name do they think will be the result of such a war with a Russia-allied power?  What happened after Iraq, Libya?  Assad is fighting ISIS, supposedly a US enemy as well.  But by overthrowing Assad, the US would be handing ISIS another country to call their own.  Why are these people making decisions like this in our name?

Obama is allegedly “owning up” to civilian casualties in his murderous aerial robot war against various Third Worlders.  What it amounts to, though, is a whitewashing, because he is claiming only 100 civilian deaths from his drone strikes!  It’s laughable, and tragic, and who could possibly believe it?  The truth is that 90% of the people killed by Obama’s drone strikes were civilians, as The Intercept has reported.  That number of 100 deaths, claimed by the White House, is probably missing a zero.

Techdirt.  That surveillance/data glutton, the FBI, who also seems to choke on the amount of data it amasses, doesn’t seem to mind that all the biometric info it has on us is even accurate.  It’s probably why it wants that database exempted from privacy laws, to hide incompetence.

Kerry gives Saudi Arabia a pass on the bombing of Yemen’s civilians.  Of course he would.  The US is funding the Saudis and their airstrikes, and, until recently, has been handing over civilian-murdering cluster bombs.  Funny how the most barbaric of weapons are end up in the hands of our Third World allies.

Justin Raimondo thinks Hillary’s hawkishness can be explained by a need to compensate for being female.  Well, hasn’t she made her gender the cynosure of her campaign?

The military is building a database to predict who will be the next Snowden-level whistleblower.  Paranoia reigns supreme inside the complex.  Just imagine the inevitable witch hunts.

Risk of war between Russia and NATO is increasing because NATO is lining Russia’s border with soldiers, tanks, and nukes: Emerging Potential for War in Europe.  Needlessly provoking Russia is reckless in the extreme.

Of course the Obama administration would whitewash the use of drones .  He pioneered the use of war by remote-control.

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