Leaving aside how egregiously extra-legal, unrestrained, and unchecked the NSA's domestic surveillance is, today's news from Glenn Greenwald in the French paper Le Monde is a window into what NSA spying looks like with zero constraints. According to the article, the...
Would Israel ‘Go It Alone’ & Bomb Iran Amid Warmed Relations With US?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is really upset that the U.S. and Iran seem to be getting closer to rapprochement. But would Israel go ahead and bomb Iran, as it has long threatened, without a green light from the U.S.? Iran is in the process of offering...
US Increasingly Supporting Government Repression in Africa
Ever since the onset of the Arab Spring, it has become increasingly difficult for the U.S. to maintain its decades-long policy of support for dictatorial Middle Eastern regimes that obediently conform to U.S. interests, as I wrote more than two years ago. While U.S....
Illegal Israeli Settlement Construction Rose By 70% in 2013
In an interview early this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said illegal Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territory are a "bogus issue" that "don't stand in the way" of a peaceful solution to the conflict. That was exactly wrong, especially...
US Inflating Threats in Africa to Justify Expansion
The U.S. has deployed "200 Marines to a naval base in Sicily for possible operations in Libya," according to UPI, the latest in the establishment of "a network of bases in Italy as launch pads for military interventions in Africa and the Mideast." The UPI report adds:...
New Study on Iraq Death Count 50 Times Higher Than Americans Think
Part of American Exceptionalism is never having to admit when your government kills hundreds of thousands of people. A new study says the U.S. invasion and subsequent war in Iraq killed an estimated 460,800, higher than most of the estimates frequently cited in the...
No, NSA Surveillance Wouldn’t Have Prevented 9/11 And It Hasn’t Foiled a Single Terror Plot
Perpetual NSA cheerleader Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday arguing that if we had had the NSA spying program prior to the 9/11 attacks, "we would have detected the impending attack that killed 3,000 Americans."...
Anatomy of a Deal Breaker: How Hawks in Washington Want to Sabotage Iran Negotiations
The cynic in me tried to temper the thrill I felt when the early chapter of U.S.-Iran rapprochement reached its apex last month with the historic phone call between President Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The leadership of these two belligerents finally...
Edward Snowden’s Brave Integrity
I’ve had a couple of days to reflect after arriving back from Moscow where my whistleblower colleagues Coleen Rowley, Jesselyn Radack, Tom Drake and I formally presented former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden with the annual Sam Adams Associates...
Obama Bows to Defense Lobbyists on Arms Exports
How much does Barack Obama love the defense corporations? Of course, we know what candidate and President Obama says about the influence of lobbyists in Washington. "I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington...
