Jerusalem Post: In an apparent reference to the public spat between the United States and Israel, former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told the Calcalist conference on Tuesday that preserving strong ties with the United States is an Israeli security necessity. "We...
Kurt Eichenwald reminds us in the New York Times that the infamous briefing declassified for the 9/11 Commission entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” was just one of many, many pre-9/11 classified warnings that an attack was imminent. He writes that "the...
The Obama administration has superseded both domestic and international law in its targeted killing program in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. A legal memo from the Congressional Research Service has concluded that "none of the established legal frameworks is a perfect...
It was reported late last week that President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas plans to head off another PLO bid to upgrade Palestine's status at the United Nations to "a state under occupation." The PLO's last attempt at being recognized as a state at the...
From a CNN report on a US drone strike this week in Yemen that killed killed 13 civilians, including three women: Residents are not denying the existence of al Qaeda elements in their region but say that misdirected strikes work in favor of the militant group, helping...
Listen up, and get this straight. President Obama doesn't answer to you or me or any American citizen or to the press, and if he doesn't feel like explaining to you how he utilizes his kingly powers of executing anyone, anywhere on his immediate command, he won't. And...
Yesterday, in our news section, we provided a link to Glenn Greenwald's article on CNN International's refusal to air a documentary it commissioned uncovering the brutal crackdown by the US-backed dictatorship in Bahrain. Greenwald linked to the documentary, now...
According to Jeffrey Lewis at Foreign Policy, "the United States is building a nuclear bomb that costs more than its weight in solid gold." There is now a furious debate about whether the United States needs to modernize the B61, which dates to Lyndon B. Johnson's...
In June, the CIA declassified a heavily redacted 2006 review of the intelligence failure on Iraq's WMD in the lead up to the Bush administration's 2003 invasion. Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, writing in Foreign Policy describes it as a mea...
Since the Egyptian revolution, Washington has been scrambling for leverage in Cairo. Losing longtime US puppet Hosni Mubarak was obviously a major blow to US imperialists who aim to have the policies of Arab states reflect American demands as opposed to the will of...
