digest commentary: this issue will dig deeper into why & how Boston is in the crux of the global domination war and its 'homeland' war front.
The 'false flag' Boston operation takes domestic 'fascism with a friendly face' to a very desperate new level. As it attempts to salvage its failed agenda internationally, the US must preemptively manufacture public opinion to not only accept but actively embrace a patriotic clampdown, preparing for what analysts/strategists predict will be serious 'civil unrest'

Millions since 911 have acted as if they have the personal option to 'opt out', or to 'hope' in, the electoral con-game, and avoid eloquently deployed fascist reality they refuse to see. Time's up. Soft & hard power 'velvet gloves' are being ripped off. Tonight's strategic communications aka news, in different styles designed for different 'socio-economic' audiences, NPR, ABC, NBC, assures us we're 'resilient' and have 'we've won the battle', but, the war to keep us safe continues, the brain-shot, heavily drugged, if not dead, younger brother is 'communicating', and everyone the 'terrorist brothers' were ever in contact with anywhere in the world, will be 'contacted'.

BOSTON-WATERTOWN IN THE CRUX OF GLOBAL TERROR WAR

Suspects' Chechen Roots Draw Eyes To Russia
4/20/13 6:37 AM http://www.npr.org/2013/04/20/178084378/suspects-chechen-roots-draws-eye...

Obama sends letter to Putin to improve relations
4/15/13 http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2013/04/15/obama-sends-letter-pu...
MOSCOW (AP) — President Barack Obama wants to ease diplomatic tensions with Moscow and had a letter hand delivered to President Vladimir Putin to propose new ways to cooperate, Russian officials said Monday. Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, met with Putin and other officials and presented the letter in an effort to improve relations, which have nosedived in recent months....National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden's statement said that Donilon’s discussions in Moscow were ‘‘comprehensive and constructive.’’...they covered the full range of bilateral and global issues in preparation for Obama’s meeting with Putin at the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland in June.
Putin has relished in anti-American rhetoric... He has accused the U.S. State Department of fomenting massive protests in Moscow against his rule...

MOSCOW (AP) President Vladimir Putin called the Boston Marathon explosions a ‘‘disgusting’’ crime...offered assistance in investigating Monday’s twin bombings in Boston saying in a condolences note Tuesday the international community should come together to fight terrorism...Speaking Thursday before the game of Russian and U.S. teams, Putin called for a moment of silence and offered condolences...http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2013/04/18/putin-boston-bombings-disgusting-crime/w8MAVeeKDQbPEC3eLa0x4N/story.html

imperialist stimulus as 'aftermath'
"Brothers' Motherland a Hotbed of Violence" in Seattle Times series "THE AFTERMATH"

Merging two major domestic psywar tributaries to strengthen the fascist state:

26 seconds of silence at the beginning of the Boston marathon...a team of Newtown runners entered the race... 26-mile marker of the 26.2 mile race included a tribute to the 26 victims in Newtown, Conn. dedicating the miles to the Newtown victims.

Obama Calls Boston Bombings An 'Act Of Terror'
April 16, 2013 3:43 PM EDT http://tv.ibtimes.com/obama-calls-boston-bombings-act-terror-10307
"What we don't yet know is who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual..."...Obama urged Americans to be vigilant and to watch for suspicious activity...Obama called the Boston attack "evil," but said the bombings — and the outpouring of support for victims in the aftermath — served to show the resilience and strength of the American people. "If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil, that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid"....

boston 'patriot day' bombing dreams
fascist sentimentality: as if this white supremacist beast born and fatttened on capitalist class- 'race' terror and genocide
Ten years after 9/11, the nation drifts back apart
The Boston Globe www.boston.com/ bostonglobe/ editorial_opinion/ editorials/ articles/ 2011/ 09/ 11/ ten_years_after_911_the_nation_drifts_apart/ -

Korea is one nation divided by imperialism
digest: The division between the two Koreas is artificial, a result of WW2 imperialist geopolitical rivalry. August 10, 1945, Dean Rusk and another US officer decided to divide the nation on the 38th parallel which leave left Seoul under US control. The Republic of Korea, occupied by about 30,000 US troops, is a critical proxy in the US global war for domination

White Paper Reveals Danger of US-S. Korea War Drills Plan
April 8. 2013 Juch 102 Pyongyang,(KCNA)

The U.S. and south Korea recently laid out a "plan"... on-going war drills against the north is aimed to put the plan into practice... a heinous nuclear war rehearsal to bring a nuclear holocaust to the Korean Peninsula, Northeast Asia and other parts of the world....

The National Reunification Institute Monday released a white paper revealing the gravity and danger of the war drills being held by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean regime to prove who is the provoker increasing the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula. The white paper said:
U.S. and south Korea have kept up staging war drills against the DPRK for six decades since the ceasefire.
U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppets waged more than 18,000 north-targeted war drills and military trainings in south Korea since the ceasefire...the number was officially made public.
The Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military drills have been staged every year in south Korea, involving hundreds of thousands of troops including the U.S. aggression troops in south Korea, south Korean puppet army, U.S. forces from its mainland, Pacific region and Japan and even troops of its allies such as Britain, Australia, Colombia, Canada and Denmark.

The ability to combine hard and soft power fruitfully is “smart power”
www.hks.harvard.edu/ netgov/ files/ talks/ docs/ 11_06_06_seminar_Nye_HP_SP_Leadership.pdf

Mapping Smart Power
10/5/09 http://publicdiplomacy.org/pages/index.php?page=mapping_smart_power
First proposition: public diplomacy and strategic communication are analogous
The Obama Administration has adopted "smart power" to frame a strategy using "the full range of tools at our disposal – diplomatic, economic,military, political, legal, and cultural." The challenge, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton puts it, is "picking the right tool, or combination of tools, for each situation."....

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US: Door still open on Iran atom talks, but not forever
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/07/us-iran-nuclear-kerry-idUSBRE9...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday..."This is not an interminable process," after arriving in Istanbul on the first leg of a 10-day trip to the Middle East, Europe and Asia...
Iran's most powerful figure, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last say on all state matters, has shown no sign of willingness to scale back Iran's nuclear activity...
He said President Obama was committed to continuing the diplomatic process despite what he called the complicating factor of an Iranian presidential election in June....

Iran Iran taps its nuclear brakes, heeds Israel’s warning of uranium ‘red line’
4/8/13 Post's Opinion, By Editorial Board, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-nuclear-talks-stall-iran-still...

DPRK Army on Highest Alert
Pyongyang (KCNA) All services and arms units of the Korean People's Army including strategic rocket units, have been placed on highest alert to cope with new war moves of U.S. imperialism.
3/29/13 http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2013/201303/news29/20130329-28ee.html

for background information see last 2 issues:
4/5/13 US 'Holds' its Korea "Playbook Plan"; US Preemptive Nuclear War Policy http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/433
Administration "Playbook" Outlined Publicized Exercises
U.S.Dials Back On Korean Show Of Force
4/4/13 Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732410090457840083399742028...

4/3/13 US Attacks DPRK, China the Strategic Target http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/432
Tensions on the Korean peninsula bring Russia and China closer
http://missilethreat.com/tensions-on-the-korean-peninsula-bring-russia-a... Arlington, VA 22209
"This is not about North Korea, but China"...All this for North Korean long-range missiles that do not actually exist? It goes without saying that Beijing is well aware of the subtext.

SMART POWER IS MERGER SOFT & HARD POWER: 'PUBLIC DIPLOMACY' & 'STRATEGIC INFORMATION' WAR IS KEY TO US WAR FOR 'FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE
“It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
Henry Kissinger

Public Diplomacy in Grand Strategy Foreign Policy Analysis (2006)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2006.00025.x/abstract (brief excerpts)

US public diplomacy warmongering 'pause' is NOT a change in intensification of 'reality on the ground' in its decades old agenda
same author, basically same article with headline change, PLUS 'u.s. reported step back from show of force' & MINUS "threats on US bases'

U.S. Dials Back On Korean Show Of Force
Administration 'Playbook' Outlined Publicized Exercises...
4/4/13 Wall Street Journal, By Adam Entous And Julian E. Barnes, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732410090457840083399742028...
WASHINGTON -- After a high-visibility display of military power aimed at deterring North Korean provocations, the White House is dialing back the aggressive posture amid fears that it could inadvertently trigger an even deeper crisis, according to U.S. officials. The U.S. is putting a pause to what officials described as a step-by-step plan the Obama administration approved earlier this year, dubbed "the playbook," that laid out the sequence and publicity plans for U.S. shows of force during annual war games with South Korea. The playbook included well-publicized flights in recent weeks near North Korea by nuclear-capable B-52 and stealth B-2 bombers, as well as advanced F-22 warplanes...the U.S. didn't believe North Korea had any imminent plans to take military action in response to the exercises...U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed the risks associated with the playbook and concluded there was a low probability of a North Korean military response because...."They are interested first and foremost in regime survival."...

Digest: US world domination pivots wherever it smells blood -- increasingly its own hemorrhaging power --so the digest will postpone more on the US/ israeli proxy /PLO/PA collaboration against Palestine and move to the deadly US and its proxy south korea provocations against the DPRK, China and Iran are the strategic targets since they, plus Syria and Russia, are the major obstacles to US hegemony -- in different ways. The US needs to divide capitalist rivals China and Russia, but also to harness their cooperation against Iran, Syria and NK which it is hellbent on destroying as nations. Wherever and how the US global terror war 'pivots' tactically, the information/surveillance war is always the linchpin.

Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era
Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason... These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieve/review by the authorities...Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of security forces need be appraised....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm..

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Armistice dead? US and South Korea dismiss North Korea's edict
3/12/13 www.csmonitor.com/ World/ terrorism-security/ 2013/ 0312/

Digest: US world domination pivots wherever it smells blood -- increasingly its own hemorrhaging power --so the digest will postpone more on the US/ israeli proxy /PLO/PA collaboration against Palestine and move to the deadly US and its proxy south korea provocations against the DPRK, China and Iran are the strategic targets since they, plus Syria and Russia, are the major obstacles to US hegemony -- in different ways. The US needs to divide capitalist rivals China and Russia, but also to harness their cooperation against Iran, Syria and NK which it is hellbent on destroying as nations. Wherever and how the US global terror war 'pivots' tactically, the information/surveillance war is always the linchpin.

Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era
Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970
"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason... These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieve/review by the authorities...Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of security forces need be appraised....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm..

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Armistice dead? US and South Korea dismiss North Korea's edict
3/12/13 www.csmonitor.com/ World/ terrorism-security/ 2013/ 0312/

Will Obama's visit shape a new Middle East?
3/25/13 http://www.npr.org/sections/middle-east/

digest note: O-K corral regional assets
Every USraeli word and move is directed to salvaging its global domination. Why was Palestine #1 stop on this regional operation?

In Ensuring Israel's Qualitative Military Edge (QME see below) - the US proxy whose very existence depends on the US, as President Shimon Peres warned. It is the lynchpin to 'unite' and leverage Arab-Israeli client state assets - Jordan and Turkey, faithful fascist feudal Arab client states, Qatar, Jordan, plus Arab League and GCC - against 'uncooperative' Iran and Syria that dare oppose the hegemon to defend their national sovereignty and lead resistance to anti-USrael domination. Not revolutionary anti-imperialists, but powerful forces that US global state terror war is designed to coopt or crush - but has not been able to.

The Palestinians have waged a heroic national liberation war for over 60 years against the genocidal zionist-imperialist war and been a worldwide inspiration The "Palestinian-Israeli problem" is the major obstacle to US regional and global imperialist 'security' aka supremacy.
Palestinian deep national liberation aspirations are suppressed by the treachery of their USraeli agent PA/PLO 'leaders' (see below), and help from USAID/ Soros PNGO run NGOs. '
Groundwork has been laid for a final solution to Palestine's struggle, including installation days before Obama's arrival of a new openly ultra-nationlist-led USsraeli regime ready to 'update the US peace process' (See below).

US bogus neoliberal 'opposition serves US imperialism by blaming AIPAC the israeli PR lobby and pretending that US world-dominator isn't zionist, that imperialism birthed zionism when Britain ruled the world and that imperialism-zionism are indivisible.