When the State Department revoked Edward Snowden’s passport four months ago, the move was a reprisal from a surveillance-and-warfare state that operates largely in the shadows. Top officials in Washington were furious. Snowden had suddenly exposed what couldn’t stand...
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced an interesting Constitutional amendment this week: 'Section 1. Congress shall make no law applicable to a citizen of the United States that is not equally applicable to Congress. 'Section 2. Congress shall make no law applicable to...
Writing in Foreign Affairs, two George Washington University professors note the strange inability of "the U.S. establishment" to substantiate their claims that leakers like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning pose an enormous threat to national security. The reason...
The Pentagon's inspector general found defense contractor Boeing deliberately overcharged for military equipment four times in the past five years, according to Bloomberg News. In 2008, for example, Boeing charged an extra $16.6 million on a $4.4 billion CH-47F...
Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have published reports on the Obama administration's drone war, saying it may amount to war crimes. This comes just days after the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions submitted a...
Leaving aside how egregiously extra-legal, unrestrained, and unchecked the NSA's domestic surveillance is, today's news from Glenn Greenwald in the French paper Le Monde is a window into what NSA spying looks like with zero constraints. According to the article, the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is really upset that the U.S. and Iran seem to be getting closer to rapprochement. But would Israel go ahead and bomb Iran, as it has long threatened, without a green light from the U.S.? Iran is in the process of offering...
Ever since the onset of the Arab Spring, it has become increasingly difficult for the U.S. to maintain its decades-long policy of support for dictatorial Middle Eastern regimes that obediently conform to U.S. interests, as I wrote more than two years ago. While U.S....
In an interview early this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said illegal Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territory are a "bogus issue" that "don't stand in the way" of a peaceful solution to the conflict. That was exactly wrong, especially...
The U.S. has deployed "200 Marines to a naval base in Sicily for possible operations in Libya," according to UPI, the latest in the establishment of "a network of bases in Italy as launch pads for military interventions in Africa and the Mideast." The UPI report adds:...
