A month after former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was convicted on nine felony counts with circumstantial metadata, the zealous prosecution is now having potentially major consequences – casting doubt on the credibility of claims by the U.S. government that Iran has...
Mike McNulty, Waco Hero, R.I.P.
One of the heroes of the Waco fights of the 1990s has passed away. Mike McNulty did more than any other single person to doggedly pursue the truth about Waco. And he produced or co-produced a number of superb films that vividly and compelling explained why the feds...
Ben Swann on The Origin of ISIS
Over at Truth in Media, Ben Swann presents a clear and damning report on how the US actions in Iraq and Syria led to the rise of ISIS. Featuring Antiwar.com's Angela Keaton. (How did Swann get a one-on-one interview with Barack Obama?!)
Lawsuit: Israel Should Pay for Weapons-Grade Uranium Smuggling Site Cleanup
News release from the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep)A federal lawsuit seeks disclosure of thousands of Central Intelligence Agency files revealing why the CIA is convinced that Israel stole enough U.S. government-owned weapons-grade uranium in...
Steve Chapman on Jeb Bush’s Bromides
In fact, it would be unfair to suggest that he got all his ideas about the world from his brother and father. It would be equally off-base to suggest that he has any of his own. What he, like most of the other Republicans who may run for president, has are...
War is the Birth of the State
From the earliest states to the Islamic State There has been some controversy over whether ISIS, or the Islamic State, is truly a state. Even according to the standard definition of “territorial monopoly of force” (which I think is too restrictive anyway), it would be...
Laugh All You Want, but Marie Harf is Basically Right About Jobs and Jihadis
I hold no brief for State Department spokesperson Marie Harf, who spends most of her time shilling for her bosses’ catastrophic policies in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and beyond. But it bodes ill for our prospects of peace that the most sensible thing I’ve ever heard her...
Kathy Kelly on The Front Page Rule
After a week here in FMC Lexington Satellite camp, a federal prison in Kentucky, I started catching up on national and international news via back issues of USA Today available in the prison library, and an "In Brief" item, on p. 2A of the Jan. 30 weekend edition,...
Obama’s Latest Hokum on Violent Extremism: Arar Retorts
In his speech this week to his anti-extremism conclave in Washington, President Obama declared that “former extremists have the opportunity to speak out, speak the truth about terrorist groups, and oftentimes they can be powerful messengers in debunking these...
Antiwar.com’s Eric Garris on Fox Radio News: ‘We Will See An ISIS/al-Qaeda Merger’
Tuesday on Fox Radio News' “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke with Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris about President Obama asking Congress for the authorization for the use of military force to take on ISIS.Garris has urged citizens to call their representatives to...
