The announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, set for October 11, is sure to make big news. The prize remains the most prestigious in the world. But the award has fallen into an evasive pattern, ignoring the USA’s continuous "war on terror" and...
Video: Glenn Greenwald on GCHQ, NSA, Snowden, and Spying
BBC reporter Kirsty Wark is taking heat today on social networks and blogs for the hostile questions in her interview with Glenn Greenwald. It's unnecessary. Wark's questions are perfect in their assumption of every obvious objection someone in power might have...
No, al Shabab Is Not a Threat
The New York Times is hosting a "Room for Debate" forum on the question of whether al Shabab poses a direct threat to the U.S. Seth G. Jones of the RAND Corp is one of the commentators and employs some funny reasoning. Citing a University of Maryland database, Jones...
DC Shooting: Shame on You New York Daily News
UPDATE: More grist: "law enforcement sources" now telling NBC News that Carey, "may have thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her." Old boss tells NBC affiliate that she was fired from old job for being "too rough" with dental patients. UPDATE 10/6: Little...
Russian Space Forces Not Ready for Alien Invasion
The Russian Space Forces, an actual real branch of the Russian military (with on-again, off-again independence historically) is not in very good shape if war breaks out with some other planet. "We are unfortunately not ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations,"...
US Teams Up With Japan to Spy on China With Global Hawk Drones
The U.S. has just announced a deal with Japan that will allow basing rights for surveillance drones. Oh and the Pentagon swears their purpose is to surveil North Korea. Really, they promise. China? What's a China? "The primary mission for the Global Hawks will be...
Is Israel Derailing US-Iran Diplomacy With More Assassinations?
The Iranian commander of the Cyber War Headquarters has been assassinated by two unidentified assailants on motorbikes, in a mysterious killing that bears the hallmarks of previous assassinations of Iranian officials that most experts suspect Israel of carrying out....
NSA Admits it Tracked Ordinary Americans’ Cellphone Locations
The NSA admitted in Congressional testimony this week that they were deliberately "collect[ing] data about ordinary Americans’ cellphone locations," in a test program that lasted from 2010 to 2011. Collecting data about the cellphone locations of ordinary Americans....
The Militarized US Drug War in Colombia is One Giant Failure
The U.S. has been declaring victory in Colombia for several years now, citing successes in clamping down on the drug trade. But it's clear the international drug war has failed miserably. The Clinton administration launched a foreign policy initiative to choke off the...
Edward Snowden: The Work of a Generation
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's words were entered as testimony at the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee in Brussels on Monday.Jesselyn Radack of the US Government Accountability Project (GAP) and a former whistleblower and ethics adviser to...
