Of course he can. Have a look at the latest trailer for the upcoming Oliver Stone movie, SNOWDEN, due out in September.The Edward Snowden story is many things, but at some level, well apart from politics, it is a helluva thriller. Think of it: a young programmer, at...
iPhone Ruse: FedGov Now Demands Backdoor To All Devices
It should hardly be surprising to anyone paying attention that the federal government lied about every aspect of its "need" to break into the iPhone of the San Bernardino mass-shooter. There was another way to access it than compelling Apple to write code to defeat...
In Syria, US Rejects Russia Call To Name al-Qaeda Allies ‘Terrorist’
The total muddle that is US policy toward Syria continues to astonish. This week we saw the spectacle of a State Department Spokesman telling us that President Obama's promise to not put US boots on the ground in Syria, was never a promise not to put boots on the...
Ukraine’s Rightists Return to Odessa
May 2 will mark the second anniversary of one of the most horrific, politically inspired tragedies in modern European history – the fire in the Odessa trade union building that killed 48 people and wounded another 200.Numerous pleas by the United Nations and the...
Sanctions and Defiance in North Korea
Sanctions on North Korea have failed.North Korea has now been sanctioned five times by the United Nations Security Council for its nuclear and missile tests: resolutions 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), 2094 (2013) and 2270 (2016). UNSC Resolution 2270 is the...
Is This What’s in Those 28 Pages? And Does it Matter?
Did the CIA meet with some of the 9/11 hijackers ahead of the attacks on New York? Did the Saudi government help finance those hijackers? Someone knows the answers, and soon, you might know as well.This Summer?James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, told...
Wartime Washington Lives in Luxury… Guess Who Pays the Bills?
Washington war contracts have enriched northern Virginia at a level equal to the total budgets of countries like Belgium and Sweden. That post-9/11 security- and military-industrial complex financial bonanza is why north Virginia counties are the wealthiest in the...
The US Is Dropping Bombs Faster Than It Can Make Them
Like about 90% of the news today, this would be terrific satire, if it wasn’t true.America is dropping so many bombs on ISIS that the country is in danger of running out.“We’re expending munitions faster than we can replenish them,” said Air Force Chief of...
Escalation Without Representation: Syria, Iraq, and Black Sea
According to the Washington Post, President Obama had promised the US public no fewer than eight times that he would not put US troops on the ground in Syria and would not mount ground operations in Syria. Then the pretext of a rescue operation of the Yazidi minority...
Contractor Hired Former African Child Soldiers To Guard US Forces in Iraq
A defense contractor hired mercenaries from Africa for $16 a day to guard American bases in Iraq, with one of the company’s former directors saying no checks were made on whether those hired were former child soldiers.The director of Aegis Defense Services...


