Excerpted from Doug Noland's Credit Bubble Bulletin,

What we have here is the Pentagon fully protected by plausible deniability. And Islamic State duly weaponized as a proxy/regime change army in Syria. A perfect chaos-provoking tool aligned with the strategic objective of the "Empire of Chaos" in Syria. Oh, but the Pentagon would never engage in such practices, would they?

Back on September 7, pro-AKP supporters hurled rocks at Hurriyet’s Istanbul headquarters in a display the newspaper’s editor-in-chief called “a black page in Turkey’s democratic history.

He probably should have called it “another” black page in Turkey’s democratic history because as regular readers are no doubt aware, President Tayyip Erdogan has made a habit of curtailing press freedom, stifling free speech, and instilling terror into the masses both figuratively and literally. 

Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,

Guided by talking heads, American armchair warriors spout vitriol, increasingly calling to either treat Muslims like Jews in the Third Reich or simply bomb them into oblivion — and their cognitive dissonance is glaring. These contradictions are evident not least in the paralyzing fear so many ‘Mericans feel toward Muslims who courageously call for soldiers to do their bidding in the Middle East. Their crippling fear of Islamic terror, itself, is cloaked in contradiction.

A Peace Corps Story Jam narrative describes why peeling a banana is a much cheaper way to not only build community but stem and reverse the spread of terrorism, move walls, make friends, and improve economies, while hardly breaking a sweat. Imagine what the world would be like if 21 million Americans peeled these bananas for a generation... And other nations selfishly copied this national service model. Pestered Congress?