Chris Hondros, the award-winning photojournalist from Getty Images who was killed yesterday from brain injuries he sustained in a mortar attack in Libya, left his Iraq embed with a unit in the 25th Infantry Division in 2005 after publishing this photo. The image, of a...
While right wingers have been all over the map on the U.S intervention in Libya, flip-flopping and crashing into one another like a bad Laurel and Hardy routine, Rand Paul has found that sticking to one's principles (in his case, he's against a new front in the war)...
Navy medic Daniel Lakemacher found a copy of Atlas Shrugged among the used books in his base quarters at Guantanamo Bay and it changed his life, literally. He left the military within a year as a conscientious objector, and has since been speaking to groups across the...
Under pressure from everyone, the State Department reversed an earlier decision to deny prominent Afghan activist Malalai Joya a visa for a three-week speaking tour for her new book, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
