This video appears to show four Marines laughing while they urinate on Afghan corpses. One of them jokingly says "Have a great day, buddy." Warning: Graphic The individual who uploaded the YouTube video, which is becoming viral, is not known and the details in the...
Full Spectrum Dominance
(h/t to Kevin Hall) I touched upon similar issues here and here. Note also how this full spectrum dominance is being applied with renewed effort in Asia-Pacific, due to irrational fears of China.
The Last Refuge of the (Happy) Scoundrel
A recent study found that nationalism "brings happiness." METHODOLOGY: Tim Reeskens, a sociologist from Catholic University in Belgium, and Matthew Wright, a political scientist at American University, categorized national pride into "ethnic nationalism," which is...
Trita Parsi on assassinating the Iranian nuclear scientist
Another Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated in Tehran and a familiar pattern is emerging: Weeks before a new round of talks, all sides escalate and provoke, mainly to improve their negotiating position at the upcoming talks. The West has adopted new...
Torture & Human Rights: Americans vs. Afghans
When Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded last week that the U.S. cede control of the detention facilities at Bagram airbase, it was ironic, in a cynical way. Came forth the opportunity to pit Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama against the leader of one of the...
The Benevolent Obama Adminstration vs. The Evil Iranian Menace
As the airwaves are set ablaze about the Evil Iranian Menace sentencing to death a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, suspected of spying for the CIA, let us remind ourselves of our own government's trampling of individual rights. Over the weekend, the New York...
The Buried Lede on Iran: All Nuclear Sites Routinely Inspected, No Violations
There are some "scary" reports out in the last few days about Iran beginning uranium enrichment at an underground bunker at the Fordow site near Iran's holy city of Qom and "diplomats" are saying it is "particularly worrying because the site is being used to make...
Fallujah: Where the War Persists
Unmentioned in the news reports and official acclaim about the supposed end to the U.S. war in Iraq was the ongoing suffering in Fallujah as a result of American crimes committed there in 2004. Al Jazeera recently released two reports on this of note (linked below)....
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The Three Faces of Jon Huntsman
Someone is playing games on Youtube, and they’ve managed to fool an awful lot of people – mostly “reporters” and bloggers who hate Ron Paul – into falling for one of the more transparent hoaxes of this election season. It all started with an incredibly stupid video...


