IN THIS ISSUE Rallies and Protests Against the Drone War Top News Opinion and analysis Anti-Drone Activism: A nationwide, month-long campaign of counter-drone teach-ins, rallies and protest, called "April Days of Action" by its organizers, will challenge the...
A recent news report asking "Where is Dubya?" found the former president totally unengaged, spending his time painting strange portraits of himself in the bath. In what seems to be a weird personal attempt to emulate Winston Churchill (but more reminiscent of Marie...
US support for Honduran security forces has skyrocketed since the military coup took place there in 2009. Washington's own commando-style troops have been working closely with Honduran police in training and weapons procurement, even as reports of extra-judicial...
Looking perhaps a little smaller, bereft of his familiar chestful of medals or his over-starched ACUs (Army Combat Uniform), (Ret.) Gen. David Petraeus began his road to public redemption this week with a speech designed to make him look contrite over an extra-marital...
Chicago, IL Judge Thaddeus Wilson - holding down the house in Room 303 of the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, IL - ruled the Illinois terrorism statute constitutional on its face. This ruling was issued approximately two months after the attorneys defending the...
This story from Der Speigel laments German Chancellor Angela Merkel's reverting back to Germany's post-WWII pacifist doctrine after years of gradual "steps towards normality" - where "normality" is militarism. On April 2, 1993, the cabinet of then Chancellor Helmut...
Ten years ago this month, Operation Iraqi Freedom began. The invasion of Iraq occurred in spite of protests of millions of people around the world. Massive demonstrations took place in the months leading up to the war. On Feb. 15, 2003, there were protests in more...
Carl Warner, an attorney defending 11 Guantanamo detainees, appeared in an interview with Russia Today and read a statement from one of his clients, Faiz al-Kandari, who remains detained despite having his charges dropped last year. Kandari's statement was the...
As conditions in Iraq spiraled downward in 2005, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld prodded the Pentagon press corps to adopt the long view. Instead of focusing on short-term setbacks and daily violence, with all the “gloom and doom” this involved, “we should ask...
Update: The CIA officer in question has been promoted to the top position in the clandestine service as of Thursday, according to The New York Times. John Brennan, the man Obama appointed to head the CIA, is reportedly on the verge of promoting an undercover agent to...
