Drones: Coming to the Skies Near You, Part II
From Secrecy News: A House-Senate conference report this week called on the Administration to accelerate the use of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones,” in U.S. airspace. The pending authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration directs...
US Aims to Crush Iranian Oil Sector, While Avoiding Harm to Oil Markets?
The Obama administration wants to sanction Iranian oil without negatively effecting global oil markets. No, seriously: The White House said on Thursday the Iran sanctions proposed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama should be enforced in a way that does...
Soccer Revolution or Just Business as Usual?
Yesterday's bloody soccer riots in the Egyptian city of Port Said left at least 73 people dead, and top members of the new Egyptian parliament blame the military junta for escalating the violence. Protesters, many of them soccer fans, are now taking to the streets of...
Fighting Against NDAA?
Raw Story: Five Republican lawmakers from Washington state have introduced legislation that condemns the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 for controversial measures regarding the detainment of terrorism suspects, according to the Tenth Amendment...
John Glaser on RT Talking Syria
Senate Calls for Obama to Push Iran Internet Freedom
The Senate's latest in an interminable number of anti-Iran resolutions, in addition to including the usual "crippling sanctions," calls on President Obama to "develop a more robust Internet freedom strategy for Iran." Iran, like a number of nations, does censor the...
Our Language Cops Are
a Bunch of Barney Fifes
Andrew Sullivan: I've touched slightly on the term 'Israel-Firster' - a shorthand that has an ugly neo-Nazi provenance, which is why I don't use it… As Justin Raimondo pointed out Monday, that etymology is false: the term was first used no later than 1953 by Alfred M....
Oil Corporations & US Gov’t to Wield Power in Future Oily Iraq
Iraq is projected to become an oil giant of as much geopolitical influence as Saudi Arabia. And the U.S. government and its corporations are at the center of that trend. Ben Van Heuvelen has a piece at Foreign Policy describing Iraq's burgeoning "extractive industry"...
‘If we kill them, they were al Qaeda…’
I wrote today about Obama's denial that a "huge number of civilian casualties" are resulting from the drone war in Pakistan. There is plenty of evidence of high numbers of civilian casualties from the drone strikes, and I write about and link to much of it in the...
