Featured in our news section, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has published an important new investigation into America's drone war in Pakistan, finding that many strikes have deliberately launched follow-up attacks, killing people "who had gone to help rescue...
From Secrecy News: A House-Senate conference report this week called on the Administration to accelerate the use of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones,” in U.S. airspace. The pending authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration directs...
The Obama administration wants to sanction Iranian oil without negatively effecting global oil markets. No, seriously: The White House said on Thursday the Iran sanctions proposed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama should be enforced in a way that does...
Raw Story: Five Republican lawmakers from Washington state have introduced legislation that condemns the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 for controversial measures regarding the detainment of terrorism suspects, according to the Tenth Amendment...
Iraq is projected to become an oil giant of as much geopolitical influence as Saudi Arabia. And the U.S. government and its corporations are at the center of that trend. Ben Van Heuvelen has a piece at Foreign Policy describing Iraq's burgeoning "extractive industry"...
I wrote today about Obama's denial that a "huge number of civilian casualties" are resulting from the drone war in Pakistan. There is plenty of evidence of high numbers of civilian casualties from the drone strikes, and I write about and link to much of it in the...
In prepared remarks to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper reviewed "global threats to the United States." He covered a number of things, one of which was the alleged Iranian plot to kill a Saudi Ambassador in...
From AFP over the weekend: The United Nations has called on Israel to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank after reporting a dramatic rise in demolitions in the past year. Israeli forces destroyed 622 Palestinian homes in the West...
