Obama's war on transparency is forever intensifying. His crackdown on whistleblowers and attacks on legitimate journalism as national security threats are now infamous. But last week the President issued a "Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and...
The greatest political conceit held by those in power is that rules only apply to others, not oneself. President Obama, according to the New York Times, embraces this conceit wholly in his administration of the drone program. Before Obama won reelection, he was...
Occupy Chicago has released another photo of "Gloves," one of the two undercover police informants from the May 2012 NATO Summit, which took place in Chicago, IL. They have placed it on Facebook and Twitter. "Gloves," acting as an infiltrator in the run-up to the...
IN THIS ISSUE Top News Opinion and analysis Netanyahu: Israel Prepared to Resume Gaza War: In a speech at Police National Headquarters to tout the war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted the war dealt a decisive blow to factions in the Gaza Strip,...
The People's Law Office in Chicago - which is representing one of the original "NATO 3" activists preemptively arrested before the May 2012 NATO Summit and charged with conspiracy to commit an act of "domestic terrorism" - wrote an update blog post on Nov. 19 that...
About 70 percent of retired three-and-four star generals took jobs with defense contractors or consultants, according to a report released Monday by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Brave New Foundation. Huffington Post: The report found...
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of carrying out terrorism in Gaza: "Those who associate Islam with terrorism close their eyes in the face of mass killing of Muslims, turn their heads from the massacre of children in Gaza," Erdogan told a...
For those that haven't seen it, a piece in Jerusalem Post by Gilad Sharon (Ariel Sharon's son) grabbed some attention over the weekend. In it, he essentially argues for annihilating Gaza and its inhabitants. First, he denounces the worry about civilian casualties,...
Here is Noam Chomsky's statement on Israel's latest aggression in Gaza: "The incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel, it is not about achieving peace. The Israeli decision to rain death and...
