This is the 49th anniversary of Congress's passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, by which the Lyndon Johnson administration lied the nation into the Vietnam War. The resolution was spurred by false assertions of multiple North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. ships. At...
Shimon Gapso, an Israeli mayor of Upper Nazareth, recently said that Upper Nazareth is a Jewish city and "will be Jewish forever." In response to this, and in consideration of anti-Arab statements Gapso allegedly made in the past (and, say, his opposition to the...
The Cato Institute's Justin Logan at POLITICO argues "Washington’s war hawks are gearing up to scare you with another phantom devil: isolationism." ...“isolationist” was designed as a slur and remains one. No one calls himself an isolationist. It’s always intended to...
From the Guardian's letters section: More than 150 civil society organisations from around the globe are asking President Barack Obama to end the prosecution of Edward Snowden (Activists stage second national day of protest against NSA's domestic spying, 4 August)....
Last weekend, one need not have looked further than the Foreign Affairs homepage for a little bit of political humor. There readers will find a lengthy, circumspect article authoritatively titled, "The War of Law: How New International Law Undermines Democratic...
The news today is that Guantanamo Bay’s head jailor William Lietzau, "in charge of the indefinite detention of a lot of people long-since cleared for release," writes Jason Ditz, has condemned the lack of due process, saying we should "have called them prisoners of...
Last week, in a piece I wrote for The Huffington Post on the hypocrisy in the Bradley Manning trial, I argued that "The law is for the powerful to defy with impunity, and for the weak to be punished with." As evidence, I mentioned several high crimes committed by the...
I'm shocked -- shocked! -- that there is gambling going on in this casino: "A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities...
Update: Here's the full interview with William Binney and Russell Tice...
This CNN report details secret efforts by the CIA to aggressively interrogate and polygraph a number of CIA agents who were on the ground in Libya just prior to the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012 that got four Americans killed at the consulate building. It even...
