About Dog Skin Report

We know what you’re thinking: “What the hell’s a Dog Skin Report?”

During World War II, a French agent in Indochina shaved his dog and then wrote a secret report in indelible ink on the skin. After the hair grew back, he escaped to Europe with the dog.

Alas, so much time had expired waiting for the dog’s hair to regrow that, by the time the agent arrived in Europe, the report was obsolete. Thus it became known in intel circles as a “Dog Skin Report.”

In the pages of this site, you will find modern-day examples of Dog Skin Reports. Here are a few:

• CIA agents running drugs so they can “save” America from its enemies
• Star Wars programs costing billions that couldn’t knock down a bottle rocket on the Fourth of July
• American intelligence services climbing into bed with Nazis, Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, all so that they can “protect” us
• The suggestion that nations such as Nicaragua, Iraq, North Korea or Iran constitute a “threat” to US security

The goal of Dog Skin Report is simple — to gently point out a basic concept: despite the trappings of democracy, our government is humping the bejesus out of us.

These, along with so much of the news fed us by the mainstream media, constitute modern-day examples of Dog Skin Reports — printed pages either no better than random patterns of ink, or carefully-crafted missives designed to disinform, as opposed to inform.

The goal of Dog Skin Report is simple — to gently point out a basic concept: despite the trappings of democracy, our government is humping the bejesus out of us. I hope to do this both by providing reliable info, and by pointing out the disinfo.

Some Americans will not like what they see in these pages. They prefer the illusion of our government not as pit bull, but as benevolent St. Bernard, ever ready with supplies in times of need. This is little different from ordinary Germans — those who were stunned to learn that atrocities had been committed against Jews after the walking skeletons emerge from concentration camps situated in their very own towns.

Here are the facts: Actions by the US government abroad constitute an American Holocaust, one in which millions of innocents have died. In some cases, such as the Christmas bombings of Hanoi in 1971, or the embargo against Iraq from 1991 to the present, the policy has been merely to prove a political point.

The truth is,
I dislike writing about these things...

Those in denial may toss a few labels my way — communist, doper or socialist are typical. The truly creative will dredge up traitor, a term the British found appropriate for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, among others. Such are the vacuous stamps applied by those whose empty intellect cannot capture enough evidence to debate issues on the facts.

The truth is, I dislike writing about these things. I suffer no Jesus complex. It gives me no pleasure to inform you that my government has been involved in activities making a mockery of even the most basic human rights.

I hope for more. The ideals expressed in the US Constitution are worthy ones, something to strive for. I wish for an America where all are created equal, where the respect for human rights is not simply an assembly of letters on a page, but a concept that governs the actions of government. Most of all, I wish for an America that applies the same standard of human rights to every human, not just those fortunate enough to carry American citizenship.

If you’ve read this far, it probably means you have a healthy curiosity. So do I. Yes, curiosity killed the cat. And if you see my tax audit declaring I owe more money than Enron, see me being arrested for inventing crack cocaine, sleeping with a three-month old fetus, or being shipped off to Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist, it will only prove one thing — curiosity can also be dangerous for dogs.