What do zombies and the military industrial complex have in common? Let us count the ways. In fact, let military strategy & policy professor Michael Vlahos (relation, yes!) take you down that thorny path. Michael writes in Dark Lord, Dark Victory: America's Dark...
Wikileaks Shut Down — But Not For Long (Includes New Domain)
U.S-based domain provider DNS.net shut down WikiLeaks Thursday night claiming relentless cyber attacks on the site, but WikiLeaks was up by the crack of dawn ET, on a new Swiss server, www.wikileaks.ch or http://213.251.145.96/. WikilLeaks announced it via Twitter...
Global Police Issue ‘Warrant’ for Assange’s Arrest
That's right, INTERPOL has put out a "Red Notice" for Wikileaks mastermind Julian Assange. Well, we knew there was some hair on fire about the recent diplomatic cables dump, so this sort of intergalactic law enforcement intimidation was to be expected. But wait, he's...
Krauthammer: WikiLeaks show the U.S Military’s “Restraint”
This has got to be the quote of the day -- maybe the week, maybe the month. After agreeing all around on FOX News' Special Report tonight that there was "nothing there, there" in the 400k documents dumped by WikiLeaks on Friday (a massive release of classified reports...
Where will your 8-year-old be 9 years from now?
Nine years ago the U.S invasion of Afghanistan began. Unbeknownst to most Americans, the U.S would still be in Afghanistan nine years later -- struggling politically and operationally, to "win." Unbeknownst to most Americans at the time, we would fight a parallel war...
A mother’s horror: Iran to release only 1 of 3 hikers
As the mothers of Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, have spent the last year pacing up and down in the private hell of not knowing whether they will ever see their children again, the Iranians who are detaining the ostensibly luckless hikers have...
Fallows, others, taking another look at Assange’s ‘demise’
Julian Assange, embattled director of WikiLeaks and now the focus of confusing and nebulous rape and molestation charges, lashed out over what he called a "smear campaign" by the Pentagon, which is still smarting from the release of 75,000 classified war documents,...
Daniel Assange is NOT Scott Evil
Looks like producers for Dr. Phil and Montel might be waiting awhile if they think they have a celebrity dad-hating story in the making. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post seemed to have obtained a scoop yesterday rising to the level of Dr. Evil/Scott Evil proportions,...
Breaking! Gasbag commenters mull murder, fatwas against leakers
There's nothing that gets the American can-do spirit going in the morning than a rightwing scribe urging the U.S military to 'have a fire sale' (read: destroy) Wikileaks, while invoking Bruce 'Die Harder' Willis and CIA 'friends' who openly advocate 'getting' (read:...
Nixon’s Vietnam Scapegoat Finally Gets Justice
One wonders how long it will really take to get to the truth about Abu Ghraib. If a story in today's Washington Post offers any indication, it will be about 40 years before we find out who authorized the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the early days of the...


