There are some "scary" reports out in the last few days about Iran beginning uranium enrichment at an underground bunker at the Fordow site near Iran's holy city of Qom and "diplomats" are saying it is "particularly worrying because the site is being used to make...
Unmentioned in the news reports and official acclaim about the supposed end to the U.S. war in Iraq was the ongoing suffering in Fallujah as a result of American crimes committed there in 2004. Al Jazeera recently released two reports on this of note (linked below)....
This Frontline documentary is well worth a watch. It covers opium eradication policies in Afghanistan and all of the pain and suffering that ends up causing ordinary, peaceful Afghans. Watch, in particular, for Afghan government authorities, watched after by NATO...
Due to a negligent misreading of an AP news report, I posted a story which incorrectly reported that Israel did not follow up on its promise to swap an additional 550 Palestinian prisoners after its first phase of 477. The full swap already took place. We want our...
In 2005, eight U.S. Marines massacred 24 Iraqi men, women, and children in Haditha, Iraq, most of them civilians. Investigations and press reports found that, contrary to the statements of the Marines, they deliberately killed civilians. Nevertheless, not one of the...
Yesterday I wrote about the lies coming out of Washington on defense spending, misrepresenting the minuscule cuts being proposed as slashing the budget and compromising "national security." The truth is that what is being proposed are minor reductions in the rate of...
Marwa Daoudy has a piece at Al Jazeera titled "The Case Against Military Intervention in Syria" and it is an important read throughout. But the segment I found most instructive was the part describing the incredible pressure towards a U.S. intervention coming from...
At Reason's Hit & Run, Jacob Sullum highlights the utterly disingenuous politicking on the part of nearly everyone in Washington with regard to cutting defense budgets. The Obama administration and most of both parties in Congress have been lying through their...
I wrote last week about the Obama administration's $11 billion deal to send Iraq military arms and equipment, despite the descent into tyranny of the Maliki government. That same day, it was announced that the Obama administration was also sending $30 billion worth of...
