From Jeremy Scahill at The Nation today, a synopsis of explosive testimony before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee regarding contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (former Halliburton subsidiary and by far the largest beneficiary of federal wartime funding, ever)....
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Does finding out that a top military intelligence official was sending Donald Rumsfeld briefings emblazoned with religious crusader talk about the invasion of Iraq, like "open the gates so that the righteous may enter" fit "the left’s narrative that the Iraq war...
Hersh Details JSOC Killings
GulfNews.com has a fantastic interview with Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in which he discusses (among other things) former Vice President Dick Cheney's secret assassination unit, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Hersh had...
Swat’s Refugee Crisis Underscores Government Incompetence
If there's one thing the private sector can't compete with a modern military on, it's the ability to drive millions of people from their homes in a matter of weeks. The situation in the Swat Valley is the largest migration the nation has seen since the 1947 partition...
Very Intriguing… Is Ross in Trouble?
Everyone knows that the Israelis are pressing hard for the Obama administration to set a a relatively short-term deadline for progress in its prospective diplomatic engagement with Iran to bear fruit, after which it would move to tighten sanctions, hopefully in...
McChrystal, Copper Green, Torture and Assassination
Check out this great Esquire article about the torture occupation of Iraq and new Afghan boss McChrystal's role. How'd I miss this in '06? It was a point of pride that the Red Cross would never be allowed in the door, Jeff says. This is important because it defied the...
Excellent Interview: Goodman-Barstow
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman did an excellent interview last week with David Barstow, a New York Times reporter who recently won the Pulitzer prize for his April, 2008 story about Rumfeld's "Force Multiplying" generals sent on combat missions to America TV news...
US Finally Wins Bogus Conviction in Miami ‘Plot’
After two juries refused to convict or acquit 6 of the so-called "Miami 7" (which then became the "Liberty City Six" after one was acquitted in the first trial but then deported anyway), five were convicted today of involvement in an al Qaeda plot to blow up the Sears...
Democrats: Investigate Republicans
But why bring up lawbreaking by the Democrats who preceded them? We don't want to criminalize policy differences do we? The sooner we stop pretending there is a "rule of law" which binds the power of our government, the better off we'll all be.
Ron Paul: Why Escalate into Pakistan?
One wonders whether Holbrook has considered any possible consequences from the 1 million refugees fleeing the fighting now. Not that he cares...
