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Our Game - Diplo-Blowback at Pearl Harbor
SIXTY-EIGHT years ago tomorrow, Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. In the brutal Pacific war that would follow, millions of soldiers and civilians were killed. My father — one of the famous flag raisers on Iwo Jima — was amon...
Ho ho ho Honduras
The Honduran minister who called U.S. President Barack Obama "that little black guy" quit the country's post-coup interim government on Tuesday, citing U.S. Embassy "pressures."A U.S. embassy spokeswoman denied the United States was exerting any pres...
Yankees vs. Cowboys - Effwit Unperturbed
Two Ex-Timesmen Say They Had a Tip on Watergate First“The fact that he had seen Gray and he had talked to me after his lunch, that I remembered,” Mr. Phelps said. But he said it was not until Mr. Smith jogged his memory that he recalled what reve...
Gaming Chavez
CARACAS (Reuters) - A video game depicting mercenaries storming Venezuela, which has been criticized in the oil-rich South American country as a blueprint for an invasion, will be released by a U.S. company this weekend.(...)The game, "Mercenaries 2:...
Mindjacking Down Gaza Way
Hijacking the airwaves, spreading false news and sowing doubt: Israel and Hamas are pulling out all the stops when it comes to psychological warfare. Lies and deceit are the weapons of choice in the effort to destroy enemy morale.Roughly once every h...
Jack B Back (Cheap Start): Rejectng COIN Wisdom
Given - it's way cheap but it B our lead-in:Some yesterday's WaPo finds our boy prezenting the institutional viewpoint as per usual.Spotted a gem from another yesterday, Rejecting COIN Wisdom (There's a Marc Lynch in here somewhere):Maybe that's just...
Fear and Loathing in Iraq
Slipstreaming behind our previous post Holding Pattern - The Iraq Stack, WaPo's Ignatius brings us this incidental:Iraq hasn't gotten much attention recently in the American presidential campaign, thanks to the reduction in violence there, but U.S. p...
Ivan The Slicker
Though we'd be reluctant to call this kind of herding Information Warfare (admittedly, it does ring sexier than a plodding public diplomacy initiative), it is definitely an improvement over the running dog hind leg lackey of American imperialism pont...
Let Slip the Dog of War
French mercenary Bob Denard, British author Frederick Forsyth's source of inspiration for the novel The Dogs Of War, died Saturday in Paris.Though never confirmed or admitted, many of Denard's exploits are widely assumed to have had the tacit approva...
The "Genocide Games" PSYOP and the Burma Crisis
The "Genocide Games" PSYOP -- which for months has concentrated on exploiting China's desire not to allow international political considerations (their support for the Sudanese government, the repression in Tibet, etc.) adversely effect their own pro...
Democratic Voice of Burma - Truth as Propaganda Enough
Sometimes the truth is destabilizing propaganda enough. Sometimes.The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) was launched in 1992 by a group of Burmese students in Europe after an election in which the opposition win was nullified by the country's ruling mi...
Boat Loads Of New U.S. Toys For Hamas
Hamas [has] seized control of large caches of U.S. weapons, including eight American armored personnel carriers provided to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, according to Hamas leaders and Fatah sources.While the U.S. in rec...
Target Iran: Cuddly Info Ops & Furry Mullahs
Here's a recent Financial Times article that rather hebetudinously presents some of the information operations in the form of 'pro-democracy' assets that the U.S. has deployed to rattle the cages of those pesky Mullahs de Tehran, a subject Effwit pre...
Nato Stooges Unplugged: Georgian President Praises Financial Times's Role In Propaganda War
Are the leaders of the pro-Western "color revolutions" fulfilling the freedom-loving aspirations of their people, or are they merely servants of a NATO plot to dominate the world, with key support from Britain's Financial Times newspaper?Until a few...
Somali Pirates' Market Outlook Bullish
Teaming up with the Addis Ababa, the U.S. invaded Somalia 2006 to restore order in a state oft branded as failing/rogue. For that the local pirates are most grateful. They're all bullish about the post-invasion market.Excerpt From The Tapei Times"We...
