Egypt's ruling military council, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has appointed Kamal al-Ganzouri as the new prime minister. According to Issandr El Amrani, "Ganzouri was prime minister between 1996 and 1999 and was known for his autocratic style, his...
The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our constitutional republic into a powerful, unaccountable military empire. On Thursday, the US Senate voted 93 to 7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to pardon an imprisoned woman for the crime of being raped, on the one condition that she marry the man that raped her. This sick tyrant gets billions in American tax money and protection from our Brave Men & Women in Uniform....
WikiLeaks Spy files project should go a long way in educating the public about how intrusive and privacy-violating the government is and how this new high-tech industry - the surveillance industrial complex, as some are calling it - is enabling ever-more authoritarian...
A fair video from the Daily Beast. For ordinary Americans, the notion that the United States is an Empire occupying directly or indirectly well over a hundred countries in the world is unfamiliar. And their tendencies are to presume the goodness and charity of these...
Back when the Egyptian revolution was at its beginning and before longtime ally Hosni Mubarak had yet been ousted, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) was vocal about stopping U.S. economic and military aid to Egypt if Mubarak did not step down. He said “if [Mubarak] doesn’t...
Beneath the news of the western media,our trusted friend and ally has been ruthlessly cracking down on the Saudi people. Here is an excerpt of Amnesty International's press release of their new report on the Saudi government's response to Arab Spring protests in the...
The U.S. military closed down its press desk in Iraq on Wednesday and sent out an email to Beltway journalists announcing so. Washington Post blog: “Due to our reposture efforts the press desk function will no longer provide releases or responses,” said the brief...
You might have thought the warmongering had died down by now, but just yesterday former Israeli Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin said "that Iran had enough material to develop 'four or five' nuclear bombs, adding that it was imperative for Israel to...
Since World War II the United States government has divided up the world into different war zones. Every corner of the planet was placed under the auspices of some subdivision of the U.S. military and national security state to be utilized in the effort to maintain...
