After initially agreeing in principle to a Status of Forces Agreement that would govern the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014, President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign the deal. The White House had been scrambling to get an agreement signed by this...
The Pentagon is planning cuts to the defense budget that are causing controversy on Capitol Hill, the New York Times reports. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel plans to shrink the United States Army to its smallest force since before the World War II buildup and eliminate...
Almost every brutal regime in the world, no matter how depraved, needs at least a veneer of popular legitimacy. Egypt's ruling military junta, which ousted a democratically elected government back in July and has imposed harsh crackdowns ever since, is angling for...
From NullifyNSA: ARIZONA ACTION ALERT. SB1156 NEEDS YOUR HELP - make calls Sunday night and Monday AM in support. We just received notice that SB1156, the Arizona 4th Amendment Protection Act will have a rules committee hearing and vote on MONDAY at 1pm. Your calls...
Via Reason's Matt Welch, Ron Paul appeared on Fox Business's The Independents to talk about staying out of Ukraine's business and seeking clemency for Edward Snowden: Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Watch the latest video at...
A quick timeline of the backstory: Late last month, international charity Oxfam split with "ambassador" Scarlett Johansson over her involvement with SodaStream, an Israeli company with a factory in the occupied West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim. SodaStream...
A recently commissioned Pentagon review corresponds with earlier intelligence assessments in predicting that once the U.S. draws down in Afghanistan, the Taliban will surge. The Guardian: Afghanistan will require tens of thousands more troops costing billions more...
It was reported this week that the Department of Homeland Security, the most conspicuous behemoth of all the national security state agencies, wants to impose "a national license-plate tracking system that would give the agency access to vast amounts of information...
For her brave decision to blow the whistle on systemic government deception and wrongdoing, Cheslea Manning was awarded the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. Snowden received the same award, presented to him by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, NSA...
Last week I wrote about the news that the Obama administration is considering whether to assassinate another American citizen in a drone strike. The Associated Press reported the target is an American citizen and member of al-Qaeda, “and the Obama administration is...
