A Closer Look at Iraq’s Violence
January 9, 2014
The overly simplistic narrative the media has decided upon to describe the recent instability in Iraq is that al-Qaeda-linked terrorists took over Fallujah, and the question now is how does the U.S. and Iraqi government remedy the situation and stave of a potential outbreak of civil war. That is about as deep as I’ve seen […]
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The Bipartisan Effort to Deprive the NSA of Water and Electricity
January 9, 2014
The California state senate is considering what is perhaps the coolest piece of legislation in modern America. The bill, introduced by Democrat Ted Lieu and Republican Joel Anderson, would ban all of California from providing “material support” — access to water and electricity — to any NSA facilities inside or outside the state. This could be […]
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Starving Refugees: How We Disowned Palestinians in Syria
January 8, 2014
A worst case scenario is unfolding in Syria, and Palestinian refugees, particularly in the Yarmouk refugee camp, are paying a heavy price for Syria’s cruelest war. They are starving, although there can be no justification, nor logistical explanation for why they are dying from hunger. Spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Chris […]
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John Glaser, Nick Hankoff on CrossTalk Discussing Entangling Alliances
January 8, 2014
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The Low Bar for US Intervention: Don’t Do ‘Post-Colonialism’ in South Sudan
January 8, 2014
The list of civil wars, government crackdowns, and pesky militant safe-havens that interventionists demand the United States meddle in seems endless. There is no corner of the Earth that doesn’t call for some measure of U.S. intervention, apparently. The latest call for intervention is coming from G. Pascal Zachary writing at The Atlantic in a piece […]
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Former Defense Sec Bob Gates: Obama WH Most Centralized Since Nixon & Kissinger
January 7, 2014
DC wonks are giddy at the political drama sure to unfold with Bob Woodward’s review in the Washington Post of Robert Gates’s new memoir to be published this month. The controversy is predictably focused on a few quotes in which Gates describes Obama as petty and political and expresses “outright contempt for Vice President Joe […]
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NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong
January 7, 2014
In a memo to President Obama, former National Security Agency insiders explain how NSA leaders botched intelligence collection and analysis before 9/11, covered up the mistakes, and violated the constitutional rights of the American people, all while wasting billions of dollars and misleading the public. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Official Washington – from Senate Intelligence Committee chair […]
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Is Domestic Surveillance Today Less Intrusive Than the Age of COINTELPRO?
January 7, 2014
Charles Pierce at Esquire says the new look at the 1971 burglary of FBI offices that revealed systematic abuses “says a lot about why the whole debate over what the NSA has been up to should not be wholly concerned about one’s opinion of Edward Snowden…and why any argument in support of any intelligence agency that […]
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Lesson of History: Stealing From the Gov’t, Publishing Secrets, is Legitimate
January 7, 2014
A new book has been published today that reveals for the first time the identities of a group of American activists who burgled FBI offices, stole sensitive documents, and leaked them to journalists. The fact that the burglary took place is hardly remembered by most Americans because it has been shadowed over by the revelations […]
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Sheldon Richman and Jacob Hornberger on the Failure of Foreign Interventionism
January 6, 2014
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