Via Glenn Greenwald, an illicit recording of Manning's court statement last week. Here is legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg's reaction to the leaked recording: Whoever made this recording, and I don't know who the person is, has done the American...

The new Libyan government - which exists thanks to the NATO intervention in 2011 - is providing aid and comfort to al-Qaeda linked groups. Mohamed Eljarh at Foreign Policy reports, "Ansar al-Sharia returns to Benghazi": On Sunday, March 3, four pickup trucks filled...

At The American Conservative, Daniel Larison quips: "It’s a bit odd that someone who incessantly calls for military intervention is offended when he is described as a reliable supporter of military interventions." It is odd. But then again, McCain is an odd fellow....

The New York Times published a lengthy article yesterday on the Obama administration's effort to legally justify the killing of an American citizen in its targeted killing program, namely Anwar al-Awlaki. Excerpt: David Barron and Martin Lederman had a problem. As...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s thirteen hour filibuster against the Administration’s claim of authority to fly armed Predator drones in America has ended and the President has blinked. Paul spoke for thirteen hours and brought home the disturbing news to many who were...

With interest in American celebrity visits to North Korea on the rise in the wake of Dennis Rodman's visit earlier this month, retired professional wrestler Nature Boy Ric Flair has given an interview to an NBC affiliate in North Carolina detailing his own visit in...

Phillip Weiss points out the conspicuous hypocrisy of Washington: whereas North Korea's nukes aren't a threat, Iran's non-existant nukes are not only a threat, they're a threat to our existence! Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been one of the foremost hawks on Iran,...

In 2008 Wired Magazine did a brief exposé on the Golfinder, a "novelty item" being marketed as an electronic golf ball finder. It turned out the machine was a joke, just an old-fashioned dowsing rod being sold for $49 and later $20. In 2010, the Iraqi government...

Stringent "background checks" are central to many proposals for curbing gun violence. The following is a background check on the nation’s largest buyer of firearms: The applicant, U.S. Pentagon, seeks to purchase a wide variety of firearms in vast...