Last week I reported on an "audit by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction [which] concluded that lack of oversight or control of where money is disbursed has left vast sums of U.S. aid “vulnerable to fraud or diversion to insurgents.” Today...
Arguments both for and against, say the war in Iraq, or in Afghanistan, tend to get clouded by whatever tangential political vocabulary is popular in any given week or month (surgical determinations of troops levels, robustness of U.S.-trained security forces,...
Der Spiegel has an account of the ideological roots and political networks from which Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivek was influenced: Such blogs provide a window into a strange scene: pro-Western, exceedingly pro-American and friendly to Israel -- but extremely...
It's now almost two months since the sternest congressional resolution against Obama's war in Libya and against the pathetic legal argument employed to circumvent the War Powers Resolution failed, losing out to John Boehner's resolution asking Obama to pretty please...
David Sanger carries on Walter Duranty, Judith Miller and Michael Gordon's lying legacy at the New York Times. In his new piece, co-written with William J. Broad, Sanger spends eleven-hundred words speculating and propagandizing about what it might meant that an...
There has been a disastrous explosion outside a government building in the Norwegian city of Oslo. At least one explosion was a car bomb. Responsibility for the apparent attack has not been confirmed, but here are some speculations: Earlier this month, a Norwegian...
Now that America will soon start its "withdrawal" of troops from Afghanistan, the brainiacs over at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, have developed Nexus 7, which, "aims to tap that data ["exabytes" collected by American troops during the war]...
There's an old adage that says there never was such a thing as a shrinking government program. Things go as projected at first, but an often uncontrollable expansion in every direction soon becomes apparent. In this sense, the defense budget is just like any other...
Every time I see these unfortunately ambiguous wire story headlines -- "Key US lawmakers assail Obama on detainees" -- I think some American lawmakers are finally standing up to the executive-run torture-state and its gulags. A closer look is always disappointing....
As the UN is set to declare Somalia in famine, we are treated to grim descriptions in wire stories of children on the verge of death as their families rot in hot, dry refugee camps both on Mogadishu's outskirts and at the borders of Kenya and Ethiopia. The suffering...
