The early releases of the massive WikiLeaks document release have been a lot to cover, but they are barely the tip of the iceberg for those waiting for the "7x the size of Iraq" document dump. It is a trickle, not a torrent, and indeed not a bittorrent (at least yet)....
No Info About Who or Where, or What He's Doing Adding to the rapidly growing list of official "warnings" that bear all the trappings of wild guesses, senior US officials informed Fox News that there are indications that a member of the Pakistani Taliban is inside the...
When Professor Brian Williams said he went into his study of Pakistani tribesmen's attitudes toward US drone strikes with an "open mind," it seems like it may have been a little too open to sloganeering and a little too closed to existing data. Starting with claims...
"You supply the pictures and I'll supply the war" - William Randolph Hearst The call to war with Iran is alive and well today, as hawkish self-styled media outlet Newsmax.com is pushing a story entitled "Iran Admits It Could Pull Nuke Trigger on US, Israel". The...
While most of the attention in yesterday's UN speeches was centered around the US delegation's faux-impromptu walkout on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's talk, President Barack Obama's own talk had a notably absent delegation, the Israeli one. Officially the...
Never trust a bureaucracy. This should perhaps go without saying but the singularly remarkable series of events which has ended in my feeling the need to pen a formal denial of a bizarre accusation has reinforced the belief in my mind, and perhaps after reading this,...
After Approving Release of Book Pentagon Scrambles to Buy Every Single Copy The Pentagon spends an inordinate amount of time demanding changes and redactions to books to "protect national security," but the mass destruction of a book already in print? It may sound...
Yesterday's tortured attempts by US and Israeli officials to make the peace talks between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority all about Iran were sort of par for the course, and no one was really surprised when a report that the IAEA tried to convince...
OK, so he's not really "our" man, he's Inter Press Service's (IPS's) man in Turkey, but the articles of Jake Hess, as was reported by a number of media outlets, his writings have appeared on Antiwar.com. But who is this 25 year old New Hampshirite and why does it...
The following appeared in the Gallipolis Daily Tribune last week and in today's Union Daily Times. CNN has become the latest to brand Anwar Awlaki, a US citizen born and raised in the United States, as not just a “terrorist,†but indeed the “New bin Laden.â€...
