An important story from the Associated Press today explains how the Obama administration is considering whether to extra-judicially assassinate another American citizen in contravention of the suspect's constitutional rights to due process. The suspect, the AP...
Read their story at the new online magazine The Intercept here.
The U.S. State Department's top diplomat for Europe Victoria Nuland made headlines yesterday when an audio recording of her phone conversation with the U.S. Ambassador with Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was released. Rumors are swirling that the Russians were surveilling the...
Here's how the relationship between Israel and Gaza works: successive "cease-fires" are repeatedly adopted and continuously violated, leading more often to skirmishes than to lulls in violence. Israel bombs Gaza with airstrikes, Gaza shoots rockets into Israel. Then a...
Since the revelations about the NSA from Edward Snowden's leaks last year, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, who authored the Patriot Act, has come out in opposition to certain NSA surveillance practices, particularly bulk collection of Americans' telephone metadata....
According to the Project on Government Oversight, "The U.S. is going to spend $1.5 trillion on the F-35, and it still isn't meeting its goals. Watch the video and find out how this happened." Several commentators including Winslow Wheeler and William Hartung discuss...
Brace yourself: George W. Bush's former attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, is arguing publicly that the Obama administration's drone war exceeds legal limits on executive authority. As anyone with a memory of Gonzales's tenure under Bush knows, this is more than a...
A recent report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace advocates several policy recommendations which aim to rectify the "threat" that a rising China poses to "the foundations of the U.S.-backed global order." Traditional strategies of "containment," as...
Again, military officials in the Pentagon are insisting on cutting superfluous weapons programs that are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars, but Congress refuses to cut because the defense corporations that line their campaign pockets want the money to keep coming...
