The flare up of violence between Israel and Gaza looks like its about to escalate, with an Israeli airstrike today killing a Hamas commander and Israeli military leadership talking openly about the possibility of an expanded war on Gaza, possibly including a ground...
Aside from the juicy details of the Petraeus sex scandal, the case raises some serious questions about the ease of government surveillance and individual privacy. Scott Shane at the New York Times: The F.B.I. investigation that toppled the director of...
"Lets you, and me, and all your money that's in all our banks talk." - a hypothetical French prospectus With its economy struggling like many others in the European Union, France is in bad need of foreign investment. And it'd like it to be in cash. And it's already...
Those with a hand in crafting US foreign policy are always more explicit about their strategies than those in the servile political and pundit classes who have a bullhorn to the ear of the American public. The result of this is that the public are under grand...
Israel has again attacked Gaza. In its aerial and ground assault that began on Saturday, November 10th, at least 7 Palestinians have been killed, 5 of them civilians, 3 of whom were children. Up to 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded. As in...
"Two weeks after American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a drone in Yemen his sixteen year old son Abdulrahman was also killed, according to Obama adviser Robert Gibbs, because "he should have a far more responsible father." --Kill Lists Will Continue by...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | November 9, 2012 IN THIS ISSUE Top News Opinion and analysis Iranian Jets Fired on US Predator Drone: The drone was fired upon but not hit, and the Obama administration did not disclose information about the incident, keeping it from the...
The US already spends more on its "intelligence budget" than almost any nation spends on their entire military. Umpteen spy agencies track terrorists, dissidents, money launderers, and spy on virtually every nation on the planet. What was originally a pretty limited...
JEREMY SCAHILL: ...you were one of only half-a-dozen members of Congress -- not a single senator -- to simply state on the record that American citizens have the right not to be assassinated by their own government without due process. REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: ...it's...
Via Electronic Intifada: This is an area of intense Israeli settlement activity, where some villages, such as Susya, have been ordered totally destroyed by the occupation forces. Video shot by Operation Dove (website) shows bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli...
