An important story from the Associated Press today explains how the Obama administration is considering whether to extra-judicially assassinate another American citizen in contravention of the suspect's constitutional rights to due process. The suspect, the AP...
Scahill, Greenwald on DemocracyNow Discuss NSA-Drone Story
Read their story at the new online magazine The Intercept here.
Is the US Trying to Install a Ukrainian Government, or Leaving It Up to Ukrainians?
The U.S. State Department's top diplomat for Europe Victoria Nuland made headlines yesterday when an audio recording of her phone conversation with the U.S. Ambassador with Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was released. Rumors are swirling that the Russians were surveilling the...
The Truth About Cease-fire Violations Between Israel and Gaza
Here's how the relationship between Israel and Gaza works: successive "cease-fires" are repeatedly adopted and continuously violated, leading more often to skirmishes than to lulls in violence. Israel bombs Gaza with airstrikes, Gaza shoots rockets into Israel. Then a...
Author of the Patriot Act Says NSA Bulk Collection Is Illegal
Since the revelations about the NSA from Edward Snowden's leaks last year, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, who authored the Patriot Act, has come out in opposition to certain NSA surveillance practices, particularly bulk collection of Americans' telephone metadata....
The Jet that Ate the Pentagon
According to the Project on Government Oversight, "The U.S. is going to spend $1.5 trillion on the F-35, and it still isn't meeting its goals. Watch the video and find out how this happened." Several commentators including Winslow Wheeler and William Hartung discuss...
Edward Snowden Interview: The Public Had A Right To Know About These Things
Former Bush AG Alberto Gonzales Says Obama’s Drone War Exceeded the Law
Brace yourself: George W. Bush's former attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, is arguing publicly that the Obama administration's drone war exceeds legal limits on executive authority. As anyone with a memory of Gonzales's tenure under Bush knows, this is more than a...
All the Wrong Policies on ‘Balancing’ (Read: Containing) China
A recent report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace advocates several policy recommendations which aim to rectify the "threat" that a rising China poses to "the foundations of the U.S.-backed global order." Traditional strategies of "containment," as...
Defense Corporations and Congress, Teaming Up to Rob You Blind
Again, military officials in the Pentagon are insisting on cutting superfluous weapons programs that are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars, but Congress refuses to cut because the defense corporations that line their campaign pockets want the money to keep coming...