Lieutenant Colonel Daniel L. Davis writes that his deployments to Afghanistan revealed to him a reality that "bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground." I witnessed the absence of success on virtually...
Joe Lieberman Calls for Arming the Syrian Opposition
Last month I wrote about "The Incredible Push for Intervention in Syria," especially from very influential neoconservative Washington-insider groups like the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Foreign Policy Initiative (successor to New American...
Institutionalizing Extra-Judicial Execution: Obama is a Mass Murderer
Featured in our news section, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has published an important new investigation into America's drone war in Pakistan, finding that many strikes have deliberately launched follow-up attacks, killing people "who had gone to help rescue...
Jason Ditz on RT: UN Syria Resolution Veto
Drones: Coming to the Skies Near You, Part II
From Secrecy News: A House-Senate conference report this week called on the Administration to accelerate the use of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones,” in U.S. airspace. The pending authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration directs...
US Aims to Crush Iranian Oil Sector, While Avoiding Harm to Oil Markets?
The Obama administration wants to sanction Iranian oil without negatively effecting global oil markets. No, seriously: The White House said on Thursday the Iran sanctions proposed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama should be enforced in a way that does...
Soccer Revolution or Just Business as Usual?
Yesterday's bloody soccer riots in the Egyptian city of Port Said left at least 73 people dead, and top members of the new Egyptian parliament blame the military junta for escalating the violence. Protesters, many of them soccer fans, are now taking to the streets of...
Fighting Against NDAA?
Raw Story: Five Republican lawmakers from Washington state have introduced legislation that condemns the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 for controversial measures regarding the detainment of terrorism suspects, according to the Tenth Amendment...
John Glaser on RT Talking Syria
Senate Calls for Obama to Push Iran Internet Freedom
The Senate's latest in an interminable number of anti-Iran resolutions, in addition to including the usual "crippling sanctions," calls on President Obama to "develop a more robust Internet freedom strategy for Iran." Iran, like a number of nations, does censor the...


