This Huffington Post article on the government seeking to recruit hackers into its ranks to "defend [the] nation in cyberspace" -- their title -- has a creepy, banally approving tone. In it, we see the US government wants to spark another "Manhattan Project"-style...
CNN-watching pays off every day. Every day there is something so utterly insane and unbelievable about the war or the economy that I can't help but stare in disbelief at the screen, or just laugh my ass off. This morning, it was that second thing. Anchor Don Lemon cut...
One of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda's goals was to destroy America economically by waging a "War of a thousand cuts." The goal was to cause as much economic pain as was possible. No attack better exemplified this than the 9/11 attacks which struck right at the heart...
This piece from Time criticizes the overall strategy in Afghanistan as misplaced and unworkable, and lays some blame on U.S. sloppiness in delegating civilian authority on the ground (aka, general incompetence). It talks about former U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry's...
Eli Clifton at Think Progress on the neoconservative push for tighter sanctions on Iran: The announcement that 90 U.S. senators signed a letter to President Obama urging him to sanction Iran’s central bank has been described by some American officials, according...
Another new Wikileaks cable on Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki provides some insight into U.S. intentions in one of its newest client states. The diplomat writing the cables is Ryan Crocker, just recently appointed Ambassador to Afghanistan. He talks about Maliki's turn...
The Cato Institute's Malou Innocent, writing at the National Interest's Skeptics blog, directs us to a Wikileaks-released diplomatic cable detailing Saudi Arabia's plan "to build, own, and operate a pipeline that bypasses the straits of Hormuz—and hence, the Islamic...
Imperial cheerleaders have a habit of blaming Iran for everything bad that happens to a US occupation, so I have come to accept they will pull that boogeyman out any chance they get. And yet I was still surprised when CNN contributor and Bush regime mouthpiece Frances...
The reporting on the U.S. army casualties in the recent downing of a Chinook helicopter by Taliban insurgents is, to put it kindly, inappropriate. Thirty soldiers were killed in the largest single incident of U.S. casualties to date. It is a tragedy, but it deserves a...
Via Peter Van Buren, this recent study of medical records kept at Guantanamo Bay concludes: The findings in these nine cases from GTMO indicate that medical doctors and mental health personnel assigned to the DoD neglected and/or concealed medical evidence of...
