Glenn Greenwald just published his account of how he came to receive and report on a trove of top secret documents from Edward Snowden, in a new book, No Place to Hide. Read an excerpt on Antiwar.com today: How I Met Edward Snowden. In the first episode of The United...
This morning we posted an excerpt from Glenn Greenwald's new book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Security State. The book was released this morning, and the excerpt was just posted. Thanks to TomDispatch for the excerpt. Read the excerpt here....
Retired US Army major and Guantanamo JAG attorney Todd Pierce, interviewed on "London Real" on the Gitmo prison, the espionage act, and lawless Global War on Terrorism.
A political sideshow to the escalating focus on the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram is what it means for Hillary Clinton's presidential prospects. Boko Haram was not officially designated a terrorist group until Clinton stepped down and John Kerry became Secretary...
The Cato Institute's Doug Bandow argues for the U.S. to pull out of South Korea: Washington needs to reflect first on why the North is such a problem for America. A small, impoverished, and distant state, even with a handful of nuclear weapons (but no delivery...
Originally posted at TomDispatch.Ignorance can be dangerous, as shown in a recent poll asking Americans what to do about the Ukraine crisis. It turned out that the less those polled were capable of identifying where in the world Ukraine is, the more likely they...
The hysteria that has erupted over the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram over the last few days has been remarkable. The terrorist group abducted hundreds of girls and, thanks to a viral awareness campaign and threats from Washington to intervene, Boko Haram suddenly...
The numbers are in. For the first quarter of 2o14 the U.S. economy showed virtually no growth at all. At the same time the World Bank says that China is about to surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest economy. On The Weekly Podcast, Ron Paul and Charles Goyette talk...
The former head of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission believes Iran is more than a decade away from a nuclear weapon and that the Islamic Republic may not even want "the bomb," according to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth (Ynet news). An insider in Israel's...
According to an exclusive report from Colum Lynch in Foreign Policy, the United States agreed to let France "distribute the text of a draft Security Council resolution authorizing an ICC investigation into alleged Syrian atrocities." The U.S. has officially opposed...
