The Financial Times recently reported that Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama has conducted ten times more drone strikes than his predecessor George W. Bush. As far as we can tell, that number is somewhere in the ballpark of 500 strikes and spans a wide array of...
After 18 years in prison, the man who exposed Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the world, Mordechai Vanunu, remains restricted under obsolete principles contradicting the UN Charter on Human Rights, prominent whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg told Russia Today. Calling...
Fourteen years later, the horrors of 9/11 continue with deadly ripple effects. American militarism has become the dominant position of U.S. foreign policy, while other options remain banished to the sidelines. Yet from the outset of the “war on terrorism,” some...
It could be ISIS. Maybe. US spy chief James Clapper, best known for lying to Congress about NSA surveillance, is now riled up about refugees "descending on Europe," saying that even though there's no evidence of it, he's super, super worried that those refugees might...
Reuters is releasing huge numbers of articles about Russia's military today, mostly centering on the idea that Russia's military advisers in Syria, despite having been there for years, are a new and major issue. But they also announced an "exclusive" story about...
If there was ever any doubt that the US doesn't have a good handle on who the ISIS leadership is, it should be exemplified by the new reports of US officials openly talking about, in their effort to "destroy ISIS," assassinating people whose Twitter accounts are seen...
Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell once said “an election is no time to discuss important issues.” But surely the opportunity to free up $40 billion while making the world a safer place ought to spark a discussion about the Canadian Navy’s role in the world.Four years...
The Ukrainian city of Uman, in the Cherkasy Province, is an historical site of pilgrimage for Hasidic Jews, which often draws tens of thousands of pilgrims during Rosh Hashana. The pilgrimage centers around the burial site of an important religious leader of the late...
Chinese ships are near Alaska, US Predator drones are near Russia in Latvia. Are the Russians going into Syria or is that just disinformation? Everywhere it seems little brushfires threaten to become conflagrations. Are we in great danger of a major war, or might...
In mid-July, the Obama Administration publicly announced that they weren't going to "publicly blame" China for the OPM hack, despite saying, publicly, that they believe China did it. This was because there was no good evidence for China having done it. Indeed, the FBI...
