"On the one side, powerful military bureaucracies, influential and richly financed weapons industries, their lobbies, their captive legislators, those for whom paranoia or past wars are a way of life. On the other side, only reason, the will to survive, the...
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Veteran Intelligence Professionals Challenge CIA’s “Rebuttal” on TortureFormer CIA leaders responsible for allowing torture to become part of the 21st...
The US government has assassinated at least one British citizen over his pro-ISIS Tweets, and we know they killed Al-Awlaki over his pro-al-Qaeda propaganda. Currently the US Administration is discussing whether to accelerate its use of drones against those who Tweet...
The Financial Times recently reported that Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama has conducted ten times more drone strikes than his predecessor George W. Bush. As far as we can tell, that number is somewhere in the ballpark of 500 strikes and spans a wide array of...
After 18 years in prison, the man who exposed Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the world, Mordechai Vanunu, remains restricted under obsolete principles contradicting the UN Charter on Human Rights, prominent whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg told Russia Today. Calling...
Fourteen years later, the horrors of 9/11 continue with deadly ripple effects. American militarism has become the dominant position of U.S. foreign policy, while other options remain banished to the sidelines. Yet from the outset of the “war on terrorism,” some...
It could be ISIS. Maybe. US spy chief James Clapper, best known for lying to Congress about NSA surveillance, is now riled up about refugees "descending on Europe," saying that even though there's no evidence of it, he's super, super worried that those refugees might...
Reuters is releasing huge numbers of articles about Russia's military today, mostly centering on the idea that Russia's military advisers in Syria, despite having been there for years, are a new and major issue. But they also announced an "exclusive" story about...
If there was ever any doubt that the US doesn't have a good handle on who the ISIS leadership is, it should be exemplified by the new reports of US officials openly talking about, in their effort to "destroy ISIS," assassinating people whose Twitter accounts are seen...
Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell once said “an election is no time to discuss important issues.” But surely the opportunity to free up $40 billion while making the world a safer place ought to spark a discussion about the Canadian Navy’s role in the world.Four years...
