Join Us In Demanding: ‘Clapper And Brennan Must Be Fired!’
August 3, 2014
Unacceptable Culture Of Lying in US Intelligence Leadership Gets Obama’s “Full Support” This week it became clear that the head of the CIA, John Brennan lied when he said: “As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just […]
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Ron Paul: End the CIA
August 2, 2014
Only after lying about it, the CIA admits to breaking in to Senate computers. It’s an old story. After lying for decades about staging a coup in Iran, the CIA finally fesses up. The spy agency record of lies and failures is long. And now even Nancy Pelosi admits to a fear of criticizing the […]
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Times of Israel Pulls Op-Ed: ‘When Genocide Is Permissible’
August 1, 2014
Updated Below: The Times of Israel has deleted an article from their website titled “When Genocide is Permissible.” The article contends that the nature of war has changed and that “nothing, then, can be considered disproportionate when we are fighting for our very right to live.” It continues with a variety of outrageous claims about […]
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Justin Raimondo Talks to Alan Colmes About Gaza and the Politics of Israel
July 30, 2014
Wednesday on “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke to Justin Raimondo, Editorial Director of Antiwar.com to get an alternate take of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Raimondo told Alan that he felt that the far right wing has taken over Israel and that American media has taken a major role in supporting Israel. Raimondo also said that […]
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Back to Black and Back to the Stone Age
July 30, 2014
You know how sometimes a cop will turn off his dash cam (often “mistakenly,” or it “malfunctions”) right before he brutalizes or executes a victim? That’s what Israel did yesterday, when it knocked out Gaza’s only power plant, killing the power for most of the population. This, besides its economic/humanitarian impacts, will make it much […]
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Former US Intel Officers Warn President Obama on US Actions Against Russia
July 29, 2014
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Intelligence on Shoot-Down of Malaysian Plane U.S.-Russian intensions are building in a precarious way over Ukraine, and we are far from certain that your advisers fully appreciate the danger of escalation. The New York Times and other media outlets are treating sensitive issues […]
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Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Kept His Oath Better Than Anyone in the NSA
July 29, 2014
At a conference earlier this month, Daniel Ellsberg, the hero who revealed the Pentagon Papers, spoke about another hero, Edward Snowden. Conor Friedersdorf writes about Ellsberg’s talk and introduces the talk at his Atlantic column. Watch the video below (83 minutes):
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Note to the Washington Post: Military-Aged Does Not Mean Combatant
July 28, 2014
Over the weekend, Professor David Bernstein penned an article for the Washington Post accusing the media of “journalistic malpractice” for using Gaza Health Ministry figures on civilian deaths in the Israeli onslaught, insisting they were inflated. And I quote Contrary to early reports that 80% or so of the early casualties were civilians, Al-Jazeera published […]
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Israel and the US Have Dropped Bombs on 8 Muslim Countries This Year
July 27, 2014
There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world today, with 49 countries having a predominantly Muslim population. Of these countries, 4 have been bombed by Israel, and 4 have been bombed by the US this year alone. Here are the four countries bombed by Israel in 2014 1. Sudan (35.4 million people, 96.7% Muslim) On […]
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CNN: US Never Apologized or Admitted Shooting Down Iranian Airliner in 1988
July 25, 2014
I was amazed to see this on CNN last night. Erin Burnett reported on other passenger airliners that have been shot down, focusing on the 1988 shooting down of an Iranian passenger airliner by the US Navy, killing all 274 on board. The US government worked hard to cover up the event and later to […]
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