Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said in an interview with Juliana Forlano (on the sidelines of a panel discussion which can be seen here) that President Obama "has conducted clear cut impeachable crimes." Ellsberg is currently involved in a...
Judge Napolitano discusses Obama's illegal drone war and the potential for "assassination courts" with Fox News's very own Brick Tamland. Here's the Judge's recent elaboration on Obama's license to kill.
In Hedges v. Obama, journalists and academics including Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, et al. are battling against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes provisions granting the power to indefinitely detain individuals, including...
During his Senate confirmation hearing, Obama's pick for CIA director, John Brennan, placated the Senate committee by promising to impose greater transparency on the drone war. He even promised to acknowledge publicly when drone strikes kill civilians (that's a lot...
The New York Times makes a comparison between Bush and Obama: Four years into his tenure, the onetime critic of President George W. Bush finds himself cast as a present-day Mr. Bush, justifying the muscular application of force in the defense of the nation while...
This Saturday Night Live skit was ultimately cut and did not air (for some reason...).
Buy Nick Turse's new book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, here.
The United States is violating the human rights of children in Afghanistan, according to a new report from the United Nations, which, according to the ACLU "paint[s] a dark picture of the treatment of juveniles by the U.S. military in Afghanistan..." one where...
In the news section, I critique some of Senator Rand Paul's foreign policy speech at the Heritage Foundation yesterday. One aspect of the article that I could not elaborate on is Sen. Paul's support for sanctions against Iran. Following his speech yesterday, I was...
This week it was revealed for the first time that the CIA has a secret airbase in Saudi Arabia from which it has been launching drone strikes for targeted killings in Yemen for at least the past two years. The news media is reporting, and reiterating for emphasis,...
