For years and contrary to all the evidence, many opponents of Obama have denied that he accepted American exceptionalism, and they have tried to interpret everything he has done according to this completely false assumption. - Daniel Larison, March 29, 2011 For some...
The discovery of old intelligence files in Tripoli is yet another example of hypocrisy and America's extremely shortsighted foreign policy. While Libyan and American intelligence sharing and cooperation was not a secret, the cache of files reveals how deeply connected...
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As usual, most of the mainstream media did not do a very good job reporting on Obama's August 30 speech in Minneapolis nor on the protest outside the National Convention of the American Legion to whom he spoke (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, FOX...
From Antiwar.com writer and ally Rick Rozoff: WordPress suspended the Stop NATO site from posting any new material earlier today, with this announcement: "Warning: We have a concern about some of the content on your blog. Please click here to contact us as soon as...
A cable labeled 04HOCHIMINHCITY367 Sensitive and For Official Use Only describes the 2004 efforts by Microsoft to convince US officials of the importance of pressuring the Vietnamese government to switch entirely to Windows as an operating system. The cable, which was...
I've written a guest blog over at the Silver Circle Underground, a blog related to a forthcoming sci-fi film about a future revolt against the Federal Reserve. I was asked to write about what US foreign policy will be like in 2019, when the film is set. I've...
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...
