When you get an opportunity like this, don’t fall back – I heard my Irish grandmother telling me last Thursday as I took my place at the table to discuss torture with a former congressional committee chairman whose job it was to prevent such abuse.Almost rubbing...
No one except John Kiriakou is being held accountable for America’s torture policy. And John Kiriakou didn’t torture anyone, he just blew the whistle on it.In a Galaxy Far, Far AwayThe United States sanctioned acts of torture by the Central Intelligence...
What do the NYPD arresting officers of Eric Garner, the CIA officials responsible for the crimes detailed in the Torture Report and US foreign policy officials all have in common? They are all agents of institutions that have adopted an “authoritarian...
Does everyone remember when USAID created that "Cuban Twitter" and paid all those guys to start agitating for regime change on it? What if that wasn't even the most ridiculous thing USAID was doing in Cuba at the time? Good news, it wasn't! USAID also hired a bunch of...
Tuesday’s release by the Senate Intelligence Committee of its long-awaited report on the torture by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of detainees in the so-called “war on terror” does not go far enough, according to major U.S. human rights groups.While welcoming...
Early in Citizenfour – journalist Laura Poitras’ new film about whistleblower Edward Snowden – Snowden explains his internal struggle over whether to out himself as the source of the evidence for broad NSA spying on American citizens.Snowden thinks...
Even though the U.S. has been warring in Iraq for 24 years now, The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says the war there and in Syria against ISIS could go another four years. That is a wildly arbitrary guess since so far, the longer we have been at war in the region the...
Sony Pictures went through a nasty hacking attack this past week. It ground the studio to a halt for awhile, and also led to the leaks of some upcoming movies. So whodunnit? Believe it or not, it sounds like it was North Korea. Sony speculated that North Korea was...
The village of Oakley, Michigan is easy to miss, even when you're driving through it. There's one stop light, and on either side are a gas station and a tavern/restaurant. 290 people call it home. It's also the home of one of the most bizarre secret police...
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was supposed to steer the Pentagon away from a decade of war, including bringing US troops home from Afghanistan and paving the way for a reduction in the Pentagon budget. Instead, the Obama administration has opted for remaining in...
