A recently commissioned Pentagon review corresponds with earlier intelligence assessments in predicting that once the U.S. draws down in Afghanistan, the Taliban will surge. The Guardian: Afghanistan will require tens of thousands more troops costing billions more...
It was reported this week that the Department of Homeland Security, the most conspicuous behemoth of all the national security state agencies, wants to impose "a national license-plate tracking system that would give the agency access to vast amounts of information...
For her brave decision to blow the whistle on systemic government deception and wrongdoing, Cheslea Manning was awarded the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. Snowden received the same award, presented to him by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, NSA...
Last week I wrote about the news that the Obama administration is considering whether to assassinate another American citizen in a drone strike. The Associated Press reported the target is an American citizen and member of al-Qaeda, “and the Obama administration is...
In the Obama administration's drone war, there are two sets of laws. First, there is constitutional and international law which the United States and he, as president, is obliged to follow. Then there are much broader, mostly secret bureaucratic rules and unorthodox...
The United States met secretly this week with spy chiefs from Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The subject was the Syrian civil war and how to better support the rebels, which are by and large al-Qaeda-linked jihadists. David...
Another extremely important article from The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher reveals that "the National Security Agency and its British counterpart...targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to...
Saudi Arabia, the brutal authoritarian theocracy that the democracy-promoting Washington claims as one of its closest allies, has a bit of a history of pressuring the U.S. into Middle East wars. The 1991 First Gulf War to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait was fought...
All too often, the details of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation are glossed over. But recently, during a Knesset speech by the German Speaker of the European Parliament, Martin Schultz, one detail of such a life came under increased scrutiny. Schultz brought...
AP reporter George Jahn has an article up that is typical of the extreme bias of U.S. news media (the "respectable" kind, not Fox News) on the Iran nuclear talks. The headline seems intended to shock: "Iran at Talks: No Scrapping Any Nuclear Facility." Readers less...
