The U.S. military closed down its press desk in Iraq on Wednesday and sent out an email to Beltway journalists announcing so. Washington Post blog: “Due to our reposture efforts the press desk function will no longer provide releases or responses,” said the brief...
You might have thought the warmongering had died down by now, but just yesterday former Israeli Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin said "that Iran had enough material to develop 'four or five' nuclear bombs, adding that it was imperative for Israel to...
Since World War II the United States government has divided up the world into different war zones. Every corner of the planet was placed under the auspices of some subdivision of the U.S. military and national security state to be utilized in the effort to maintain...
In my piece today on the gradual drawdown of NATO troops in Afghanistan, I provided plenty of evidence supporting the notion that we are not getting out of Afghanistan in 2014, as the Obama administration claims. By the end of next year, 40,000 will have been...
Today's Washington Post informs us that "for the holidays, the spies say they’ll scrimp." [W]ith budget cuts looming, party plans are being pared back for the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA. … Under then-director Leon E. Panetta last year, the CIA...
A couple weeks ago I posted a blog with the story and video of journalist Sam Husseini who asked a Saudi official a tough question and was subsequently suspended from the National Press Club. The incident was not only indicative of the embarrassing journalistic...
I wrote today about the dangerous provision of the current defense bill that would drastically expand the Defense Department’s ability to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects, shifting that responsibility from traditional domestic law enforcement to the military....
Los Angeles Times: Drone aircraft, best known for their role in hunting and destroying terrorist hide-outs in Afghanistan, may soon be coming to the skies near you. Police agencies want drones for air support to spot runaway criminals. Utility companies believe they...
I talked yesterday on Antiwar Radio about the ongoing U.S.-supported corruption and repression in Bahrain. I just came across this week-old Democracy Now segment today, which features a Bahraini activist speaking her mind. Worth a watch.
A new Congressional Research Service report on Obama's military intervention into Uganda and surrounding countries ostensibly to fight the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has been obtained by Secrecy News. Here's one excerpt I found particularly interesting: In addition,...
