Sony Pictures went through a nasty hacking attack this past week. It ground the studio to a halt for awhile, and also led to the leaks of some upcoming movies. So whodunnit? Believe it or not, it sounds like it was North Korea. Sony speculated that North Korea was...
Oakley, MI Secret Police Sue Village, Demand to Keep Their Names Secret Because of ISIS
The village of Oakley, Michigan is easy to miss, even when you're driving through it. There's one stop light, and on either side are a gas station and a tavern/restaurant. 290 people call it home. It's also the home of one of the most bizarre secret police...
Amid Growing US War Failures, Officials Mock ISIS ‘Midgets’
The US war against ISIS couldn't be going much worse. ISIS continues to gain in Iraq, despite soaring US ground deployments into the nation, and the Syria air war has backfired so bad its wiped out most of the US allies, and brought al-Qaeda, once an ISIS rival, into...
White House Aims to Replace Website Passwords With Federal Authentication Scheme
The White House has announced today that a long-standing plan to roll out a federal "Internet ID" authentication scheme that would be used to log in to all websites across the Internet will move forward, and the service will launch in six to twelve months. "We simply...
Michigan Village’s ISIS Threat ‘Far-Fetched’ But Still the Excuse for Secrecy
A week and a half ago, I blogged about an ongoing story in Oakley, Michigan, which is not that far from here and which I've been keeping an eye on. People are apparently picking up the story now outside of the local news, and it's getting some new info. For those who...
Missed Story: Israeli Settler Kills Palestinian Child in Hit-and-Run
Though Antiwar.com covers the vast majority of English-language news sites 7 days a week, and 365 days a year, it's inevitable that sometimes we miss stories that received sparse coverage. On Sunday, October 19, an Israeli settler ran over a pair of 5-year-old...
ISIS Cited as Michigan Village’s Police Push for Secrecy
The tiny village of Oakley, Michigan looks fairly unremarkable as you drive through it. Located along the M-52 highway, it consists of little more than a single traffic light, with a bar on one side and a gas station on the other. It's a village of secrets, however,...
Inspector General Reveals Millions Wasted on Unused Afghan Communications Towers
The story is nominally "embargoed" until Thursday morning, but the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) is preparing to release letters from the State and Defense Departments detailing a $7.2 million waste on communications towers built in...
Dempsey: Parents of Slain Hostages Should Be Grateful for Botched Rescue Attempt
In what may well be the single most tactless comments he's made yet, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, in open testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he believed the parents of slain US hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff should...
ISIS Faulted for Use of Cluster Bombs
ISIS is facing growing criticism for its use of cluster monitions in its ongoing war in Iraq and Syria. The complaints, interestingly enough, began with allegations that Syria's government was the one using the "banned" munitions, and was treated in a similar negative...


