Amid the release of 35,000 new cables by WikiLeaks this week comes new and tragic, but perhaps not so surprising news about the five deaths of Iraqi civilians, reportedly at the hands of U.S forces in the early to mid-2000's. In each case the military investigated,...
Spc. Charles Graner, the sick low-level bully and ringleader in the scandal that rocked the already shaky U.S war effort to its deepest, darkest core in 2004, has been released from jail, three and a half years ahead of schedule. Recall with revulsion the many now...
So what could really go wrong with an Air Force class that says nuclear war is moral and righteous -- because the bible tells us so? Well for 20 years no one had said a peep. But after a number of complaints by Air Force officers and a Truthout article last week by...
Found this over at CopBlock.org, one of the most fearless law enforcement watchdog sites I've ever come across. This "standoff" was staged recently by the South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT) in Oak Forest, Illinois in response to a call from a "concerned...
Chris Hondros, the award-winning photojournalist from Getty Images who was killed yesterday from brain injuries he sustained in a mortar attack in Libya, left his Iraq embed with a unit in the 25th Infantry Division in 2005 after publishing this photo. The image, of a...
While right wingers have been all over the map on the U.S intervention in Libya, flip-flopping and crashing into one another like a bad Laurel and Hardy routine, Rand Paul has found that sticking to one's principles (in his case, he's against a new front in the war)...
Navy medic Daniel Lakemacher found a copy of Atlas Shrugged among the used books in his base quarters at Guantanamo Bay and it changed his life, literally. He left the military within a year as a conscientious objector, and has since been speaking to groups across the...
Under pressure from everyone, the State Department reversed an earlier decision to deny prominent Afghan activist Malalai Joya a visa for a three-week speaking tour for her new book, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her...
What do zombies and the military industrial complex have in common? Let us count the ways. In fact, let military strategy & policy professor Michael Vlahos (relation, yes!) take you down that thorny path. Michael writes in Dark Lord, Dark Victory: America's Dark...
U.S-based domain provider DNS.net shut down WikiLeaks Thursday night claiming relentless cyber attacks on the site, but WikiLeaks was up by the crack of dawn ET, on a new Swiss server, www.wikileaks.ch or http://213.251.145.96/. WikilLeaks announced it via Twitter...
