In my piece today on the gradual drawdown of NATO troops in Afghanistan, I provided plenty of evidence supporting the notion that we are not getting out of Afghanistan in 2014, as the Obama administration claims. By the end of next year, 40,000 will have been...
A couple weeks ago I posted a blog with the story and video of journalist Sam Husseini who asked a Saudi official a tough question and was subsequently suspended from the National Press Club. The incident was not only indicative of the embarrassing journalistic...
I wrote today about the dangerous provision of the current defense bill that would drastically expand the Defense Department’s ability to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects, shifting that responsibility from traditional domestic law enforcement to the military....
Los Angeles Times: Drone aircraft, best known for their role in hunting and destroying terrorist hide-outs in Afghanistan, may soon be coming to the skies near you. Police agencies want drones for air support to spot runaway criminals. Utility companies believe they...
I talked yesterday on Antiwar Radio about the ongoing U.S.-supported corruption and repression in Bahrain. I just came across this week-old Democracy Now segment today, which features a Bahraini activist speaking her mind. Worth a watch.
A new Congressional Research Service report on Obama's military intervention into Uganda and surrounding countries ostensibly to fight the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has been obtained by Secrecy News. Here's one excerpt I found particularly interesting: In addition,...
Our devoted Managing Editor Eric Garris is featured in a new book called Making it in the Political Blogosphere: The World's Top Political Bloggers Share the Secrets to Success by Tanni Haas. It's a brilliant insider's look at the political blogosphere and the minds...
More U.S.-made tear gas used against protesters in Egypt: More at The Real News As I've written about many times before, "the close military relationship between the U.S. and Egypt/SCAF is" continuing and is serving as an impediment to prospects for democratic...
Remember that old children's game Telephone? Where one kid invents a sentence and whispers it to another kid and so on until the last kid has no clue what was said, and where the kid who sits next to the kid with the really bad speech impediment always either loses or...
I forced myself to tune in to CBS early this morning because of Ron Paul's "Face the Nation" interview. Establishment tool Bob Schieffer previews the interview by announcing that "this morning, we've got an interview with Ron Paul, who, of all people, is rising to...
