A cable labeled 04HOCHIMINHCITY367 Sensitive and For Official Use Only describes the 2004 efforts by Microsoft to convince US officials of the importance of pressuring the Vietnamese government to switch entirely to Windows as an operating system. The cable, which was...
The More Things Change…
I've written a guest blog over at the Silver Circle Underground, a blog related to a forthcoming sci-fi film about a future revolt against the Federal Reserve. I was asked to write about what US foreign policy will be like in 2019, when the film is set. I've...
Petraeus’ Lies and Failure Mount — Toward Ever-Greater Career Success
Where Gen. David Petraeus goes, lies follow. Or maybe he's the liar. We probably can't expect the truth from a man in the military for as long as he's been. The 37-year veteran, retiring this week, is credited by the stenographic media with cutting violence in Iraq --...
Could Nigeria Be the Next Front in the War on Terror?
A much underreported story in the press recently was the UN bombing in Abuja, Nigeria by the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram. Also known as the Nigerian Taliban, the Muslim group was founded in response to what its founders saw as the westernization of Nigeria,...
Depicting an Executed Iraqi Family
Earlier this week I reported on a US State Department diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks detailing the execution by American forces of an Iraqi family, including five children, in March of 2006. McClatchy has now written on the story and provided a photograph I...


