In a powerful testament to the value of Edward Snowden's decision to leak, the Pulitzer Prize for journalism was awarded to the Guardian and the Washington Post. This came just days after the lead reporters on Snowden's NSA stories - Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras,...
The US’s Invasion of Africa That Nobody Knows About
The U.S. is assembling the rudiments of imperial infrastructure throughout Africa, and hardly anybody knows about it. Hardly anybody knows about it because the government and military refuse to divulge much of U.S. foreign policy towards Africa. You see, U.S. foreign...
The Intoxicating Pull of Proxy War Will Worsen Ukraine
The White House has just confirmed what had been reported in Russian media that CIA Director John Brennan was in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev over the weekend. "Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is accusing the CIA of being behind the new government's...
Cities around the country say: Fusion Centers are Wasteful, Fraudulent, and Ineffective
[Cross posted from the People's Constitution Blog of the Board of Rights Defense Committee -- Angela Keaton] Thursday, April 10, 2014 was a National Day of Action against Fusion Centers. Diverse, multiracial grassroots coalitions from around the country held rallies,...
Rumsfeld’s Infuriating Oblivion
Errol Morris's new documentary about Donald Rumsfeld, The Unknown Known, is not as valuable as his last piece The Fog of War, a similarly styled conversation with another former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara. The fault is not Morris's, but Rumsfeld's. In The...
Senators Urge Partial Declassification of CIA Torture Report, Keep Vast Majority Secret
Late last week, Sens. Diane Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post calling for the 6,300+ page Senate report on the CIA's Bush-era torture and interrogation program to be released to the public: The Senate Select Committee on...
Ron Paul: Ukraine Bailout a Bad Deal
Charles Goyette interviews Ron Paul for their weekly podcast on the question of U.S. intervention in Ukraine and the new U.S./IMF bailout Kiev bill, as well as the leaked phone call of Turkish officials discussing the possibility of launching a false flag attack to...
A Very Realistic Military Game
Inside Amy SchumerGet More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows Stand up comic and writer Amy Schumer discovers what it means to be "all you can be." For more information on military rape, please read Kelley Vlahos, here, here and here.
John Kerry: Israel Is To Blame For the Breakdown In Peace Talks
Via Juan Cole and Mondoweiss, John Kerry's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday featured a clear admission that Israel was the cause of the collapse of peace negotiations with the Palestinians. First, the Israeli government refused to...
An Economist’s Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy: David Henderson at Hoover
The Naval War College, based in Newport, Rhode Island, runs a special 11-month course for foreign Navy officers. On February 3, the Naval War College held a special morning session at the Hoover Institution, where I am a research fellow. I was invited to speak. The...
