In Hedges v. Obama, journalists and academics including Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, et al. are battling against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes provisions granting the power to indefinitely detain individuals, including...
During his Senate confirmation hearing, Obama's pick for CIA director, John Brennan, placated the Senate committee by promising to impose greater transparency on the drone war. He even promised to acknowledge publicly when drone strikes kill civilians (that's a lot...
The New York Times makes a comparison between Bush and Obama: Four years into his tenure, the onetime critic of President George W. Bush finds himself cast as a present-day Mr. Bush, justifying the muscular application of force in the defense of the nation while...
Someone started a thread on Twitter yesterday with the hashtag #TheBestThingsAboutObamasDrones Here are some of the most amusing zingers thus far - The Best Thing About Obama’s Drones is…. #TheBestThingsAboutObamasDrones they eliminate the need to read an American...
This Saturday Night Live skit was ultimately cut and did not air (for some reason...).
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The United States is violating the human rights of children in Afghanistan, according to a new report from the United Nations, which, according to the ACLU "paint[s] a dark picture of the treatment of juveniles by the U.S. military in Afghanistan..." one where...
The military-industrial establishment now calls U.S. soldiers "warfighters." The problem is, they're not fighting wars anymore. The U.S. hasn't been legally at war since September 12, 1945 when the Japanese forces in Southeast Asia surrendered to Allied Commander...
In the news section, I critique some of Senator Rand Paul's foreign policy speech at the Heritage Foundation yesterday. One aspect of the article that I could not elaborate on is Sen. Paul's support for sanctions against Iran. Following his speech yesterday, I was...
This week it was revealed for the first time that the CIA has a secret airbase in Saudi Arabia from which it has been launching drone strikes for targeted killings in Yemen for at least the past two years. The news media is reporting, and reiterating for emphasis,...
