Wednesday on “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke to Justin Raimondo, Editorial Director of Antiwar.com to get an alternate take of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Raimondo told Alan that he felt that the far right wing has taken over Israel and that American media has...
Back to Black and Back to the Stone Age
You know how sometimes a cop will turn off his dash cam (often "mistakenly," or it "malfunctions") right before he brutalizes or executes a victim? That's what Israel did yesterday, when it knocked out Gaza's only power plant, killing the power for most of the...
Former US Intel Officers Warn President Obama on US Actions Against Russia
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Intelligence on Shoot-Down of Malaysian PlaneU.S.-Russian intensions are building in a precarious way over Ukraine, and we are far from certain that your advisers fully...
Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Kept His Oath Better Than Anyone in the NSA
At a conference earlier this month, Daniel Ellsberg, the hero who revealed the Pentagon Papers, spoke about another hero, Edward Snowden. Conor Friedersdorf writes about Ellsberg's talk and introduces the talk at his Atlantic column. Watch the video below (83...
Note to the Washington Post: Military-Aged Does Not Mean Combatant
Over the weekend, Professor David Bernstein penned an article for the Washington Post accusing the media of "journalistic malpractice" for using Gaza Health Ministry figures on civilian deaths in the Israeli onslaught, insisting they were inflated. And I quote...
Israel and the US Have Dropped Bombs on 8 Muslim Countries This Year
There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world today, with 49 countries having a predominantly Muslim population. Of these countries, 4 have been bombed by Israel, and 4 have been bombed by the US this year alone.Here are the four countries bombed by Israel in 20141....
CNN: US Never Apologized or Admitted Shooting Down Iranian Airliner in 1988
I was amazed to see this on CNN last night. Erin Burnett reported on other passenger airliners that have been shot down, focusing on the 1988 shooting down of an Iranian passenger airliner by the US Navy, killing all 274 on board. The US government worked hard to...
How Obama Is a Direct Accomplice to Israeli War Crimes
To assist in a crime makes one a criminal by any legal standard. And the biggest crimes of all are war crimes, since they kill en masse and showcase the cruelest form of human behavior.The fact that Israel is actively committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip is not...
Harassing the Drones
Written for teleSUR English, which will launch on July 24Kabul – On July 10, 2014, in New York State, Judge David Gideon sentenced Mary Anne Grady Flores to a year in prison and fined her $1,000 for photographing a peaceful demonstration at the U.S. Air National...
Leveretts on International Law and the Gaza Crisis – and US Policy Toward Russia, Ukraine, and the Iran Nuclear Talks
As the human toll of Israeli military action in Gaza mounts, the Obama Administration continues its cynical endorsement of Israel’s “absolute right” of “self-defense.”Earlier this week, Flynt appeared on RT’s CrossTalk to discuss the Gaza...


