In the Obama administration's drone war, there are two sets of laws. First, there is constitutional and international law which the United States and he, as president, is obliged to follow. Then there are much broader, mostly secret bureaucratic rules and unorthodox...

The United States met secretly this week with spy chiefs from Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The subject was the Syrian civil war and how to better support the rebels, which are by and large al-Qaeda-linked jihadists. David...

Another extremely important article from The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher reveals that "the National Security Agency and its British counterpart...targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to...

Saudi Arabia, the brutal authoritarian theocracy that the democracy-promoting Washington claims as one of its closest allies, has a bit of a history of pressuring the U.S. into Middle East wars. The 1991 First Gulf War to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait was fought...

All too often, the details of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation are glossed over. But recently, during a Knesset speech by the German Speaker of the European Parliament, Martin Schultz, one detail of such a life came under increased scrutiny. Schultz brought...

AP reporter George Jahn has an article up that is typical of the extreme bias of U.S. news media (the "respectable" kind, not Fox News) on the Iran nuclear talks. The headline seems intended to shock: "Iran at Talks: No Scrapping Any Nuclear Facility." Readers less...

A surprisingly positive report this morning by CBS News: Justin Raimondo reports on the NullifyNSA campaign here.

[h/t Matt Feeney]

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced this week that he is suing the Obama administration in a class-action lawsuit over the surveillance excesses of the NSA, as revealed by documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Specifically, he is challenging the constitutionality of the...