Dazzling Singapore’s Deep Contradictions

The Globalist | John West | 24 July The clean veneer surrounding Singapore starts to show cracks. Visitors to Singapore can’t help being dazzled by Asia’s only global city. Marina Bay. Sentosa Island. Botanical Gardens. Temples. Museums. Casinos. Luxury hotels. Shopping on Orchard Road and lots more. But scratching below the surface reveals a system…

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown

The Guardian 12 June 2014 Nafeez Ahmed Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US…

Pseudo-legal democide: Memo on drone killings of US citizens makes case for executive murder & Presidential dictatorship

by Barry Grey | Cyrano’s Journal Today | June 26, 2014 The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday released a redacted version of the hitherto secret Obama administration memo arguing for the legality of presidential assassinations, without charges or trial, of US citizens (pdf version of memo). The 47-page memo, dating…

Secret terror trial is ‘outrageous assault’ on justice

NZ Herald 5 June 2014 A major terrorism trial is set to be heard entirely in secret in a “totally unprecedented departure” from centuries of open justice in Britain, it can be disclosed. For the first time in British legal history, two men charged with serious terror offences will be kept anonymous and the press…

Leaked Documents Reveal Marine Corps ‘Urban Training Center’ Based on U.S. Town

Mikael Thalen Infowars.com May 16, 2014 RELATED: Police Now “Armed For War” Against Returning Veterans Newly leaked Marine Corps’ documents detail yet another military urban training center that more closely resembles a small U.S. town than a foreign combat zone. The document, entitled “Military Operations on Urban Terrain Collective Training Facility,” details the specifics of…

Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’

The Independent 22 Oct 1995 Francis Stonor Saunders For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art – including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko…