War

Summary of Senate's 6,300 top secret report on CIA torture show CIA tortured people and lied about it.

Analysis of government futility.

"Yet Cockburn concludes: “Twelve years after the ‘war on terror’ was launched it has visibly failed and al-Qaeda-type jihadis, once confined to a few camps in Afghanistan, today rule whole provinces in the heart of the Middle East.” Look across that region today and from Pakistan to Libya, you see the rise, not the fall, of jihadis of every type. In Syria and parts of Iraq, groups that have associated themselves with al-Qaeda now have a controlling military presence in territories the size of, as Cockburn points out, Great Britain. He calls al-Qaeda’s recent rise as the jihadi brand name of choice and the failure of the U.S. campaign against it “perhaps the most extraordinary development of the 21st century.”"

Thanks, government.

More on Turkey's plans for a false flag to start a war between NATO and Syria.

Why does the US need to defend Europe from Russia or anybody?

"The question again, however, is why. Why should the U.S. be protecting Europe and Europeans, either from the wars of one European country with another or with countries outside Europe? Cannot Europeans fend for themselves? With a population of 733 million that is 2.25 times that of America, why is the U.S. involved? The EU as a unit has the largest GDP in the world. "

NATO is the world's largest welfare program, and like all welfare programs, it's about control.