Death penalty hearings against five Guantanamo Bay detainees were quickly shelved today, and the courtroom ordered "cleared" during the defense lawyer's questioning of a former Gitmo prison commander Rear Admiral David Woods sparked an angry exchange with the...
Libertarian television show host John Stossel, and liberal creator of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire David Simon have reacted to the National Security Agency (NSA) spying scandal in a similar fashion - -namely, they suggest we stop worrying about it so much since...
Physics lesson time guys. So we've heard in the past 24 hours that: a) Some guys totally built an X-ray death beam to kill Obama and/or "enemies of Israel" b) Those guys were KKK but somehow pro-Israel too c) The whole thing was a "portable Hiroshima" that ran...
Introduction by Tom EngelhardtYes, the predictions are in. By 2016 (or 2030?), China will have economically outpaced the U.S. So say the economic soothsayers. And behind them lie all those, in the Pentagon and elsewhere in Washington, who secretly...
"In Yemen we are close to the bottom in all kinds of measures like income and education, but there’s one statistic where we come out on top: the number of prisoners in Guantanamo," laughed Mohammad Naji Allaw, a successful Yemeni lawyer who ploughs his...
Just a reminder for those who haven't done so already, the White House petition calling on President Obama to preemptively pardon leaker Edward Snowden is still a little short of its goal. There's plenty of time left and no reason we shouldn't be able to get another...
OKLAHOMA CITY – A state lawmaker will lead an anti-war rally on the south steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol at 7 p.m. Friday, July 12. The public is invited.The rally’s theme is “Not Our War!” and will be held to reflect the views of those who...
By now much of the world has learned that Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone reporter, war correspondent and author, has died in a car crash at the age of 33. He will be best known -- and all of the eulogies so far lead with this -- for his breakout story, Runaway...
The New York Times op-ed page has a piece by retired General Wesley Clark headlined: "To Get a Truce, Be Ready to Escalate." The Times summarizes Clark's wisdom: "The threat of force might get talks over Syria moving, as it did in Kosovo." Clark opines as if the...
An appeal from Afghanistan to whistle-blow on warFrom Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace VolunteersRecognition that 95 million human beings were killed in World War I and II has helped the people of the world understand that the method of war is not cost-effective. An...
