The Washington Post reports that, as a result of the automatic cuts imposed by the debt deal, the Pentagon is cutting - or, to use their overly dramatic term, "slashing" - about 8,700 jobs from the Defense Department: The Army said Thursday it is moving forward with...
I sometimes find it difficult to address political speech that is as disgusting as it is stupid. It can be hard to know where to start. And that's exactly how I felt when I refrained from blogging about the Newt Gingrich comment that Palestinians are an "invented...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell had a great interview on RT's Alyona Show:
My dad died nine years ago this week. Talking about waging nonviolence and little insurrections. In life, as in dying, my dad was a peaceful warrior. In the fall of 2002, after months of feeling lousy and only very slowly healing from hip surgery, Phil Berrigan,...
Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy interviewed Nabeel Rajab, president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Here are some of his remarks: The military has taken part in suppressing the protests. They have killed people, they have tortured people, they have arrested people,...
Today's hardest-hitting news story: "You'll Never Guess What The Obama Kids' School Is Serving For Lunch Today." Don't care? Well, you should. It's a "heavily Japanese-inspired menu, which includes Asian mushroom and oriental noodle soup, garlic roasted edamame,...
For frequent readers, you already know this: Data obtained by Amnesty International shows that the US has repeatedly transferred ammunition to Egypt despite security forces' violent crackdown on protesters. A shipment for the Egyptian Ministry of Interior arrived from...
Yesterday's New York Times pointed out two very interesting notes on the last Republican debate. The candidates were asked to name the national security issue they most worried about which had not already been discussed. Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Rick Perry all...
It came to our attention today that an excerpt from a 2006 column that was incorrectly attributed to Jim Lobe was quoted in an article that appeared today at Politico.com. Some of our old archives are being misindexed by Google. The article that appeared at...
WikiLeaks recently drew attention to the surveillance industrial complex with its release of the Spy files. The obvious truth about them still has not hit the mainstream media. Reporters Without Borders: "By equipping oppressive regimes and giving them the means to...
