The disturbing footage of the US military in action will be excused by many conservative warmongers in one of two ways (or perhaps both). One, although the incident is unfortunate, collateral damage is inevitable, and this incident should not discredit the greater...
Warning: Very Disturbing Footage July 12, 2007 From CollateralMurder.com: WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters...
From today's Washington Post website - "FBI warns extremist letters may encourage violence" By EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEVLIN BARRETT The Associated Press Friday, April 2, 2010; 9:34 AM .... The article ominously notes: " In the past year, federal agents have seen an...
I don’t want this blog to get obsessed with any one individual, and I fear that we’re moving in that direction with Tom Friedman, the main foreign-policy columnist at the New York Times and named by an insiders’ poll at the National Journal last year as...
On Thursday, April 1st, KUCR 88.3FM and the University of California at Riverside's Highlander Newspaper present best-selling author and journalist Reese Erlich on Obama's Challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons and the Fate of the Middle East with a panel discussion...
Federal judge Vaughn Walker ruled today that the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program was illegal. This has been obvious ever since the New York Times blew the lid off of the National Security Administration's massive surveillance operation in late...
It was with some disappointment that I read today’s new column from Marc Thiessen, the former George W. Bush speechwriter, new Washington Post columnist, and noted waterboarding enthusiast. After all, the previous day had seen the arrests of nine people in...
Charles Peña and Doug Bandow debate Lawrence Korb and Frank Gaffney on closing down the U.S. empire of bases. Pt. 2 Pt. 3 (Somebody get Gaffney a squeaky red nose and rainbow-afro wig please, huh?) Update: Dr. Gordon Prather - a real nuclear expert - uses facts to...
I just interviewed Joseph Casias, the poor man with an inoperable brain tumor and sinus cancer so bad you can barely understand him when he speaks, who was fired in November by Wal-Mart after he tested positive for marijuana. For the last four months, Casias had been...
One of my favorite subjects is the militarization of everything, from fashion trends to disaster aid. Now the Indian Army intends to weaponize the hottest chili pepper in the world. The tiny "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," will be used to make nonlethal gas grenades...
