Obama's trip to Africa is a propaganda crusade. As the president talks about growing economies and making electricity more available to the continent, he is all hush hush on what is actually happening in Africa with regard to U.S. policy. Namely, Obama has increased...
July 1 marked the first day in office for Clifford Sloan, newly appointed Guantanamo closure envoy. Shortly after his May address on counterterrorism, President Obama appointed Sloan to the Office of Guantanamo Closure in the State Department, a position that had been...
There is a bit of déjà vu happening in Egypt right now: as mass protests against the Morsi regime continue to grow, the Egyptian army gave the regime a 48-hour ultimatum, threatening direct military involvement in the political process "if the demands of the people...
I've noted the work of Webb and Murphy before here. They also claim, according to their sources, that Petraeus was intentionally ousted from the CIA through the deliberate public disclosure of his affair with Paula Broadwell.
Those defending the NSA's surveillance activities in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks swear the program is lawful, transparent, and checked by oversight in other branches of government. Many are even appalled at the suggestion that the NSA could ever overstep its...
Via Matthew Feeney at Reason, Irish politician Clare Daly calls Obama a "war criminal" and asks if he's going for the "hypocrite of the century award."
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made no bones about his view of Twitter as a threat to his regime, dubbing it a "danger to society." Other officials in his government ruled Twitter "deadlier than car bombs." Twitter sure could make some Turkish...
The U.S. Department of Defense guided the National Security Council's development of an official Obama administration position on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers clean-up of toxic waste site in Pennsylvania. U.S. taxpayers will pay up to half a billion to clean up...
This isn't much positive to say about the virtues of Congressional oversight in the aftermath of Edward Snowden's leaks of the NSA's vast domestic surveillance apparatus. Congress has been little more than an active participant in the systematic violation of...
Copperhead, which Ron Maxwell directed from my adaptation of Harold Frederic’s novella, opens in theaters June 28, with a second wave of openings July 19. You can find where it’s playing at copperheadthemovie.com. Herewith my introduction to the newly published...
