Military.com has done a story on Sibel Edmonds's allegations of widespread espionage in the U.S. by the Israeli and Turkish governments and their allies in the U.S. government. For the first time, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith have gone on record to deny her...
President Peace’s Predators
Seems like President Barack Obama -- Nobel Peace Laureate Obama -- has taken his predecessor's predator drone program and jacked it up with steroids. The New Yorker's Jane Mayer reports this week that the number of Obama-authorized strikes in Pakistan equals the sum...
Secret Italian Bribes to Taliban — Tip of the Iceberg?
When I was researching my recent piece on Taliban extortion rackets in Afghanistan, it was easy to find examples of the Taliban extorting private contractors hired by western governments and companies engaged in humanitarian and reconstruction projects. What was...
Lt. Gen. Lynch Growing Tired of Waiting for His Droid Army
“There’s a resistance saying that armed ground robots are not ready for the battlefield. I’m not of that camp,†- Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch Perhaps underscoring the old adage that "to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail," Lieutenant General Rick Lynch,...
Liz Cheney and Tom Friedman Agree: Give the US Military the Nobel
One of the most notable developments surrounding the debate about the Nobel Committee’s decision to award Obama its peace prize has been the apparently spontaneous agreement by both Tom Friedman and Liz Cheney that the president should make the occasion a...
In the hopes he’s going to do, or not do, something
I've been thinking a lot about this Obama - Nobel Peace Prize business today, actually I've been trying to ignore it but I've run into several people today who think it's a great idea and going to spur Obama to do something good... or at the very least spur him to not...
Nobel Peace Legacy Was Meant To Be Radical
So many promoters of war have won the Nobel Peace Prize in recent history: Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, to name a few. But Alfred Nobel's will, where he laid out the requirements for winning the Peace Prize, were anything but moderate. Nobel...
Obama Will Go Naked to Stockholm
Obama, Kissinger, Wilson, Roosevelt and Moniz. Quick. What do Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger and Egar Moniz have in common? All won the Nobel Prize, the first four for “peace†either as sitting presidents, or in Kissinger’s...
Chicago and Pakistan
Appropriately, Congress passed the Kerry-Lugar "Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009" and the International Olympic Committee made its much anticipated decision just as the baseball season drew to a close.Yep, the Windy City's National League franchise...
FBI Supervisor Calls for Prosecutor in Edmonds Case
From BradBlog.com: An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. John M. Cole, who now works as an...


