In a recent interview on Hardtalk, former Secretary of Homeland Security (and co-author of the PATRIOT Act) Michael Chertoff was asked about extraordinary rendition and why the US government sent captured detainees to other countries known for widespread torture. Not...
At least the U.S. military and other NATO air forces have already had lots of practice hammering this country. Who could have ever foreseen that the Islamist radicals would take over after the U.S. helped topple the country's dictator? Today's New York Times:...
While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America’s new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.In a recent speech before the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), Ambassador Daniel Shapiro...
A good bit of drama found its way into John Walsh's blog post for Antiwar.com about a resolution, passed at the Veterans For Peace convention last month, to impeach President Obama. Unfortunately, not all the drama was based in reality. Here's to setting the record...
By Coleen Rowley (with editing assistance from Hugh Iglarsh, writer/editor/citizen based in Chicago) These two words sum up well the op-ed I co-wrote with Bogdan Dzakovic before the ninth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks last year, a shortened version of...
The contradictions and the lies that are the foundation for the intervention in Libya are so numerous it's hard to keep track, and can be even harder to write about over and over and over again. But today's headlines gave me another opportunity... September 14,...
I was sad to read this morning of the death of Carl Oglesby, one of the great leaders of the early Vietnam antiwar movement. Oglesby was a leader and one-time president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). SDS was the leading antiwar students group in the 1960s...
The Obama cult is going on the offensive, on the theory that the best defense is a good offense, the Obama cult is going on the attack – launching a special web site, and a twitter feed, attackwatch.com, which is devoted to refuting the “smears” being repeated by the...
Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist group opposed to what they see as the westernization of Nigeria, is making headlines yet again. Staying true to its name --Boko Haram means "Western education is a sin"-- the "Nigerian Taliban" has said that it will bomb 18 Nigerian...
Justin Elliott had a good piece in Salon yesterday, which we featured here. But when I went to read it, the subtitle made me laugh out loud. "The president promised early on to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. What changed?" What changed? LOL....
