Two senior British judges accused the U.S. of threatening to stop sharing intelligence with Britain if the British Government released details of the extraordinary rendition of British citizen, Binyam Mohamed. Why? Perhaps this explains it:...
As he makes clear in this post, The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan has finally come to the conclusion that the democracy claptrap that neo-conservatives have spouted since 9/11 has been a facade for their core foreign-policy worldview with Israel at its heart. “I took...
As pointed out in this post by Rasmus Christian Elling of the University of Copenhagen, the U.S. Treasury – notably Stuart Levey, whose zeal in trying to make it difficult for Iranian banking interests to do business outside their borders has been widely remarked...
On PBS tonight, NOVA is presenting "The Spy Factory," based on James Bamford's excellent book, The Shadow Factory. PBS says the NOVA program: chronicles the NSA's role in eavesdropping both before and after 9/11. Drawing on dozens of interviews with agency insiders...
The bottom of your shoe, not the fish. The fantastic trend of protesters showing their disdain for dictators and other official criminals by tossing a shoe (or two) at them continues in Britain, as an as-yet unidentified "European" man hurls his footwear at Chinese PM...
