Railroaded into a military prison for 35 years, whistleblower Chelsea Manning is now facing "indefinitely solitary confinement" for a handful of trivial charges, which stem entirely from allegations by one of the guards (termed "specialists") that she swept food on...
Early last week, the US publicly announced that it was not going to publicly blame China for the OPM hack. The evidence of China's responsibility for the hack has not been made public, and doesn't seem particularly strong. The FBI initially suggested several possible...
US military officials are loudly bragging about their latest initiative to reassure Europe, a program that was called, unlikely enough, the European Reeassurance Initiative (ERI), and which to this point has involved moving a lot of sand around, and building some...
Once again reflecting the huge disconnect between Israel's far-right government and common sense, Israeli MP Michael Oren, who previously served as Israel's Ambassador to the United States, insisted that the US owes Israel unconditional support because God wills it...
We've gone through the paucity of evidence related to who was behind the OPM hack before. FBI officials suggested they were looking into a number of situations, including the possibility of "state actors," which led some media outlets to say they might be looking at...
In new comments today, FBI Director James Comey is claiming that he "believes" plots linked to the Fourth of July may have been thwarted by a series of arrests by the FBI, and that those plots may have killed people if carried out. The details were almost...
Earlier this year, US officials announced a plan to set up a State Department office to centralize all government anti-ISIS propaganda on Twitter and Facebook. The efforts of middle-management bureaucrats to connect to the young people in an anti-ISIS manner, in hopes...
With a 7-day extension hinting at the possibility of a major breakthrough in nuclear negotiations with Iran, CNN turned the tables and instead released a story talking about US bunker-busting bombs being put on standby. The focus on a "military option" against Iran,...
The State Department is struggling to make up its minds on the Iraqi Shi'ite militias in the ISIS war, declaring Iran to be financing "terror-related activities" for supporting those militias, which are the same militias fighting on the same side as the US in Iraq....
Israeli officials are usually pretty mad at the UN for something they did or said, or didn't do or didn't say. Today, Ambassador Ron Prosor's outrage centered around a new UN report on Israel's treatment of Palestinian children in the occupied territories, a report he...
