WikiLeaks recently drew attention to the surveillance industrial complex with its release of the Spy files. The obvious truth about them still has not hit the mainstream media. Reporters Without Borders: "By equipping oppressive regimes and giving them the means to...
Another so-called "price tag" attack occurred this morning in a village near the West Bank city of Salfit. "Israeli settlers," according to reports, "set fire to the main entrance of the Broqeen Mosque, and a number of Palestinian cars parked nearby." The...
Charles P. Pierce has a nice piece in Esquire about Obama's secret wars, waged entirely inside the Executive and almost totally independent of Congress, in explicit contravention of the Constitution and what every notable American revolutionary in the late 18th...
Via Lew Rockwell, a map of U.S. military bases in the Middle East:
Today presented another illustration of daily life for Palestinians in the West Bank. About 15 Palestinians were evicted from their homes by the Israeli state, only to watch those homes be demolished before their eyes "under the pretext that it was not licensed by the...
Egypt's ruling military council, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has appointed Kamal al-Ganzouri as the new prime minister. According to Issandr El Amrani, "Ganzouri was prime minister between 1996 and 1999 and was known for his autocratic style, his...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to pardon an imprisoned woman for the crime of being raped, on the one condition that she marry the man that raped her. This sick tyrant gets billions in American tax money and protection from our Brave Men & Women in Uniform....
WikiLeaks Spy files project should go a long way in educating the public about how intrusive and privacy-violating the government is and how this new high-tech industry - the surveillance industrial complex, as some are calling it - is enabling ever-more authoritarian...
A fair video from the Daily Beast. For ordinary Americans, the notion that the United States is an Empire occupying directly or indirectly well over a hundred countries in the world is unfamiliar. And their tendencies are to presume the goodness and charity of these...
Back when the Egyptian revolution was at its beginning and before longtime ally Hosni Mubarak had yet been ousted, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was vocal about stopping U.S. economic and military aid to Egypt if Mubarak did not step down. He said “if [Mubarak] doesn’t...
