Secrecy News has a post up on John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer being charged under the Espionage Act for contributing to the exposure of state crimes: In the present case, Mr. Kiriakou is charged with providing the name of a “covert agent” in response to...
I think this is a clever way to get around the financial blockade the government and the banks have placed on WikiLeaks: Starting in March, Mr. Assange will host a 10-part series of interview programs with "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries"...
There was a long list of sanctions already imposed on Iran before this latest round from the U.S., and now that Obama's diplomats have been successful in pressuring the European Union to ban the import of Iranian crude oil and block trade in other markets like...
From a new Congressional Research Service report, American casualties soar in Afghanistan since Obama took over: Afghan civilian casualties, although the numbers are less solid than DoD's tracking of Americans killed, have also skyrocketed under Obama's surge. See...
Robert Wright talks with Mikhael Manekin of Breaking the Silence:
U.S. policy in the last couple of presidential eras has demonstrated complete acceptance of North Korea's megalomaniacal leadership attaining nuclear weapons. In 2003 though, make-believe weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq were enough of a threat to...
As prominent voices in the U.S. pontificate about a looming nuclear bomb in Iran, as fleets of U.S. navy warships demonstrate provocative militarism in the Persian Gulf, and as Israel uses its committed constituency in America to push for a preemptive military strike,...
Daily Beast: After months of internal debate, the Obama administration is planning to reveal publicly the legal reasoning behind its decision to kill the American-born leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Anwar al-Awlaki. Marcy Wheeler: The problem–the problem...
Longtime U.S. ally and embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is on his way to America, reportedly to seek medical treatment. This decision to come to the U.S. was made after Saleh apparently gave up trying to muscle his way back into the power structure in...
James Dobbins of the RAND Corp. has written a piece which basically says the Obama administration's recent attempts to negotiate with the Taliban is not a sign that the war is coming to an end. He compares it with peace talks between the U.S. and the North Vietnamese,...
