“We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy and we should do it today while our economy is in a position of global strength. If we don’t write the rules for trade around the world, guess what, China will. And they’ll write those rules in a way...
The Phony ‘Bad Intel’ Defense on Iraq
Presidential aspirant Jeb Bush this week may have damaged his chances by flubbing the answer to an entirely predictable question about his big brother’s decision to attack Iraq.On Monday, Fox’s Megyn Kelly asked the former Florida governor: “Knowing what we know now,...
Essential Reading for Nakba Day
The Nakba, 65 Years of Dispossession and Apartheid The Real Story of How Israel Was Created by Alison Weir Asking the Hard Questions About Israel by John Feffer The Unmentionable Source of Terrorism by John Pilger By Murray Rothbard: War Guilt in the Middle East Rand...
Israel’s Repression of Nakba Day (May 15)
Tomorrow is Nakba Day, which commemorates the mass dispossession of Palestinians that accompanied the foundation of the State of Israel. Read "The more Israel represses the Nakba, the stronger the memories" by Gideon Levy in Haaretz. Use the printer-friendly or Google...
Sterling Verdict Another Measure of Declining Government Credibility on Secrets
On Monday, Judge Leonie Brinkema sentenced Jeffrey Sterling to 42 months in prison for leaking information about a dubious CIA plot to deal nuclear blueprints to Iran to New York Times journalist James Risen.Given how circumstantial the case against Sterling was –...
Obama’s Gulf Meeting Protocol: Shake Hands, Smile, Ignore Repression, Repeat
Washington DC is presently the converging point for some of the world’s most oppressive regimes. On May 13th and 14th, President Obama is hosting a billionaire conglomerate known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which consists of the Middle Eastern countries of...
The Only Aerial Bombing of an American City During the Cold War
...was carried out by cops, on this day, 20 years ago. Will Grigg tells the story. "Philadelphia was the only U.S. city to be bombed from the air during the Cold War, and the perpetrator of that attack was not the Soviet Union, the Weather Underground, or some other...
The Invisible Man: CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling
For the first time since his indictment in December 2010, whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling's voice can be heard – in this short documentary film, released May 12, 2015. (Produced by ExposeFacts. Directed by Judith Ehrlich.)
Punishing Another Whistleblower
Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was a whistleblower who was then targeted by the U.S. legal system for retaliation, which now includes a 42-month prison sentence. His real “crime” was going to the Senate Intelligence Committee to report on a dubious and dangerous...
William Pfaff, The Pundit Who Hated Militarism and War
William Pfaff died on April 30, 2015. His death is nothing less than a serious loss to the shrinking number of American daily newspaper columnists who question and contest American Exceptionalism and its “unnecessary and unwinnable” wars. Pfaff was the singular heir...


