On the bright side, at least Egyptians know the name of the U.S. Ambassador (Anne Patterson). Maybe if we doubled our foreign aid, they would take down at least one of those signs. I have been railing against foreign aid since... hell.... since way back when my beard...
Desperate to drum up some sort of evidence of the NSA's effectiveness in tracking down terrorists by collecting phone records from literally every single American, officials have tapped a relatively minor case of an immigrant cab driver arrested for sending money to...
White House denials are so often overt lies these days that when they say something at least plausible it's worth examining. Today, Press Secretary Jay Carney insisted the NSA "examine only a very small percentage" of the world's Internet traffic. Examine as in give...
This is the anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Nixon knew that his defense was doomed and chose to throw in the towel without a Senate trial. But President Gerald Ford compounded the damage from Nixon’s presidency when he issued a sweeping...
"Publicly, we say one thing. Actually, we do another." So said Richard Nixon, the man who ushered in one of the most secretive and criminal presidential administrations in American history. Surprisingly for some, President Barack Obama is ably following in Nixon's...
Lots of people are asking good questions about the veracity of the Obama administration's claims regarding this latest terrorist attack that they foiled by intercepting electronic communications between Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of core al Qaeda, and Nasir al...
This is the 49th anniversary of Congress's passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, by which the Lyndon Johnson administration lied the nation into the Vietnam War. The resolution was spurred by false assertions of multiple North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. ships. At...
Shimon Gapso, an Israeli mayor of Upper Nazareth, recently said that Upper Nazareth is a Jewish city and "will be Jewish forever." In response to this, and in consideration of anti-Arab statements Gapso allegedly made in the past (and, say, his opposition to the...
The Cato Institute's Justin Logan at POLITICO argues "Washington’s war hawks are gearing up to scare you with another phantom devil: isolationism." ...“isolationist” was designed as a slur and remains one. No one calls himself an isolationist. It’s always intended to...
From the Guardian's letters section: More than 150 civil society organisations from around the globe are asking President Barack Obama to end the prosecution of Edward Snowden (Activists stage second national day of protest against NSA's domestic spying, 4 August)....
