Worth your time.

In these days, given the perfect storm of lies that crashes at our door each day (purple prose alert), it behooves us to figure out on our own what the heck is going on (WTFIGO). The demonization of Russia and Syria is so obvious and so blatant that no one can be under any illusion that U.S. foreign policy is anything like what is being sold to the world.

These two posts are well worth your time if you care to consider some thoughtful and decidedly different perspectives:

• "The Geopolitics of World War III." Author unknown. SCG News, 9/11/14.

• "Syrious Balkans Jihadists and Not So Syrious Kosovo Analogies: Year in Review, July 2013-July 2014." By Julia Gorin, Republican Riot, 8/4/14.