The Chicago Sun-Times reports: "President Barack Obama has chosen Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to be the next secretary of state, a source has told Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed.His replacement as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be Sen....
With the news that UN Ambassador Susan Rice, after taking disproportionate heat from the GOP over her comments on the September 11th Benghazi attack, has withdrawn her name from consideration for Obama's nomination for Secretary of State, rumors of nominating former...
The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) amounts to a sweeping database housing information and surveillance records of people the government suspects have ties to terrorism. It is a horrendous monstrosity of Orwellian proportions. And it just got worse. As a...
The New York Times published an article yesterday detailing how top former US officials who helped spearhead the Clinton administration's bombing of Serbia in 1999 are now deeply embedded in lucrative rent-seeking activities with Kosovo's corrupt semi-government....
Charles Glass on Democracy Now talks about the Syrian conflict, the Islamist opposition, and Western threats about the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons. Of the latter, he says, "It sounds to me pretty much like the propaganda that was used prior to the invasion...
The massive - yet hidden - monstrosity that is the US government's warrantless surveillance powers are being met with some very limited push-back from a few members of Congress. A few Senators are trying to amend the FISA Amendments Act to make it more transparent,...
In the Shiite neighborhoods of Sitra in Bahrain, these posters are reportedly all over the place: The picture on the bottom right-hand corner is John Timoney, the ex-US police chief whose expertise was tapped by the US-backed Bahraini dictatorship to crack down more...
An editorial from Haaretz explains how Israel is destroying the water reserves of Palestinians in the West Bank as part of an intentional policy to ethnically cleanse the occupied territories "and thus make it easier to annex these areas to Israel." Since the...
By 2030, the US will no longer be the global hegemonic power, according to the US National Intelligence Council. In a report called Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, the office of the Director of National Intelligence concludes that, "In terms of the indices of...
The Obama administration is peddling two scenarios for a potential war in Syria. With news and official statements this week repeating uncorroborated allegations that the Assad regime is moving and mixing elements of chemical weapons and possibly loading the materials...
