From Secrecy News: The Obama Administration is putting the finishing touches on a new executive order that is intended to improve the security of classified information in government computer networks as part of the government’s response to WikiLeaks. The order is...
Foreign Policy has a piece up by J.M. Berger about Anwar al-Awlaki, the American born Muslim living in Yemen that has been targeted for extra-judicial assassination by the Obama administration. Fundamentally, the piece doesn't distinguish itself remarkably from any of...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) last month began to publish their findings in a study of the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. The study found that much higher rates of civilian casualties had resulted from the U.S. drone war than had been admitted by the...
Brave New Foundation, of Rethink Afghanistan, is launching a new campaign to help expose the costs of war and get Congress to cut defense spending. The new website, War Costs, is where you can sign the letter, follow on Facebook and Twitter, and get involved. Robert...
Here's the deal now: in the case of who shot down that Chinook in Afghanistan and if he was indeed killed by US forces yesterday, we have the word of the often-lying Pentagon against that of the often-lying Taliban. What to make of it, I don't know, but given the...
Eli Clifton has an important addendum to his earlier post on the push from almost the entire Senate for Obama to add further sanctions on Iran (which I posted on here). Obviously, the Israel lobby supports these sanctions too, but Clifton says their tactics resemble...
I have read and heard the mission of the U.S. military helicopter that was recently shot down in Afghanistan described as a "rescue mission." This makes it sound like the helicopter was rescuing hikers from off a mountain who had gotten lost. Make no mistake about it,...
Listen to Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton talk about Come Home America and the New Peace Movement on Free Talk Live featured on the Liberty Radio Network! The full interview here!
Army sergeant Joseph Bozicevich was sentenced Wednesday to life in military prison without parole. He was convicted of killing his fellow soldiers, Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson and Sgt. Wesley Durbin, at a small patrol base outside Baghdad in September 2008. An argument...
Last Friday, the ratings agency Standard and Poors (S&P), in an odd episode of semi-sanity, decided to stand firm against the United States government and downgrade American debt from the golden AAA to AA+. The empire, being caught naked yet again, went into a fit...
