From the beginning, it was to be “Russia’s Vietnam.” First the administration of President Jimmy Carter, then that of President Ronald Reagan was determined to give the Soviet Union a taste of what the U.S. had gone through in its disastrous 14-year...
Time to Address the Jerusalem Issue
The shooting of a prominent Jewish activist who frequented the sacred Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharifon a nearly daily basis by a Palestinian gunmen on October 29, 2014, is another cornerstone signaling a deteriorating state of affairs. Young Israeli Jewish nationalists...
Amazon-CIA $600 Million Deal Facing Scrutiny: ‘What’s the CIA Doing on Amazon’s Cloud?’
From the Institute for Public Accuracy: A billboard challenging Amazon to fully disclose the terms of its $600 million contract to provide cloud computing services for the Central Intelligence Agency has been unveiled at a busy intersection near Amazon’s Seattle...
White House Aims to Replace Website Passwords With Federal Authentication Scheme
The White House has announced today that a long-standing plan to roll out a federal "Internet ID" authentication scheme that would be used to log in to all websites across the Internet will move forward, and the service will launch in six to twelve months. "We simply...
Lawsuit Spotlights US Charities That Fund Israel’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Program
The following is being released by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy: A federal lawsuit seeks immediate release of a closely held government report about how American branches of Israeli charitable and educational institutes fund secret nuclear weapons...
Marcy Wheeler: Are FBI and NCTC Trying to Pressure Prosecutors to Charge the Second Intercept Source?
Citing “law enforcement and intelligence sources who have been briefed on the case,” Michael Isikoff reports that the government has identified “the second leaker” – a source of information on drone targeting and terrorist watchlisting for The...
Watch Laura Poitras’s Iraq Documentary for Free Until Nov 24
The Sundance Now Doc Club is making My Country My Country, the Iraq documentary by Laura Poitras (of Edward Snowden fame, and director of the acclaimed new film, Citzenfour), available to watch for free online until November 24. Watch it here.
Michigan Village’s ISIS Threat ‘Far-Fetched’ But Still the Excuse for Secrecy
A week and a half ago, I blogged about an ongoing story in Oakley, Michigan, which is not that far from here and which I've been keeping an eye on. People are apparently picking up the story now outside of the local news, and it's getting some new info. For those who...
Missed Story: Israeli Settler Kills Palestinian Child in Hit-and-Run
Though Antiwar.com covers the vast majority of English-language news sites 7 days a week, and 365 days a year, it's inevitable that sometimes we miss stories that received sparse coverage. On Sunday, October 19, an Israeli settler ran over a pair of 5-year-old...
Ron Paul on An Ill Wind – The Draft and National Service
Statist politicians of both the left and the right – John McCain, Robert Reich, Charley Rangel – keep asserting a claim the lives of young people. And if conscription into the military creates resistance, they are always ready with something called "national...