Where Gen. David Petraeus goes, lies follow. Or maybe he's the liar. We probably can't expect the truth from a man in the military for as long as he's been. The 37-year veteran, retiring this week, is credited by the stenographic media with cutting violence in Iraq --...
A much underreported story in the press recently was the UN bombing in Abuja, Nigeria by the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram. Also known as the Nigerian Taliban, the Muslim group was founded in response to what its founders saw as the westernization of Nigeria,...
Earlier this week I reported on a US State Department diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks detailing the execution by American forces of an Iraqi family, including five children, in March of 2006. McClatchy has now written on the story and provided a photograph I...
One of the many unfortunate consequences of all the breaking news from the Obama administration's war in Libya, is that many of the details that expose the contradictions of US empire get crowded out in the media. How many know, for example, that the Bahraini Arab...
Today's Washington Post reports details on a guy who the FBI hired to provide expert anti-terrorism training: William G. Hillar billed himself as a hero and a patriot, a 28-year veteran of the Army Special Forces who shared his knowledge of counterterrorism by...
The Associated Press brings to our attention a morbid 1940s medical experiment on Guatemalans (apparently considered less than human at that time), in which hundreds of people were unknowingly infected with venereal diseases: From 1946-48, the U.S. Public Health...
There are various reports of a vast torture regime in Libya under Muammar Gadhafi, including this graphic CNN report on some in Gadhafi's immediate family throwing boiling hot water on their nanny. It is always useful to maintain a skeptical eye when the US media...
After publishing tens of thousands of additional diplomatic cables since last week, the WikiLeaks website is apparently under attack. The twitter account announced it tonight a number of times (and asked for help from supporters). Raw Story: The online assault came...
A wonderful presentation by Angela Keaton on The Daily Caller TV. Antiwar.com director of operations appeared on The Daily Caller's series for the anniversary of 9/11. Check it out:
