Boeing Demands Welfare Before Building New Airliner
December 9, 2013
If you want to get an idea of how tight a hold defense corporations have over the government, take a look at this Seattle Times scoop (update: originally reported at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch). It reports on a secret document drawn up by Boeing and sent to 15 state governments. Boeing is dangling the prospect of […]
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Japan Strengthens State Secrecy, Beefs Defense Role to Placate US
December 6, 2013
Foreign Policy reports that Japan is stiffening the state’s ability to classify information and punish whistleblowers and is even rolling back their pacifist constitution to get “in line with U.S. preferences.” The new law, which passed Japan’s upper house Friday, will give agency heads discretionary power to classify 23 types of information in four categories […]
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Max Blumenthal Talks Goliath at New America Foundation
December 6, 2013
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The Hypocrisy on Mandela is Palpable
December 6, 2013
Today you can watch much of the world praise the life and mourn the death of former South African President anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. Scores of U.S. leaders and political pundits with platforms to reach millions of Americans are expressing admiration for Mandela today, but I have barely seen a single acknowledgement of the fact […]
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‘There Is A War On Journalism’: Jeremy Scahill on DemocracyNow!
December 5, 2013
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The ‘Zero Option’ Is The Best Option in Afghanistan
December 4, 2013
As the U.S. wrestles with the Karzai government to finalize a security agreement that would govern thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan for another decade, virtually everyone across every spectrum agrees that pulling out completely – the so-called ‘zero option’ – would be reckless and dangerous for America. The U.S.-backed regime in Afghanistan is too […]
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Why US Critiques of China’s Naval Maneuvers Are Hypocritical
December 4, 2013
China’s recent attempt to establish an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over disputed territory in the East China Sea was met with shock and horror from the U.S. and its Asian allies. But the shock and horror, as always with American foreign policy, is cynically selective. First, China’s strategic maneuvers on the disputed land and maritime […]
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Is Obama Changing Tack on Syria?
December 4, 2013
The Obama administration’s fumbling policy on Syria turned out better than it might have this past fall when unprecedented public and international opposition to a punitive U.S. strike against the Assad regime staved off another reckless U.S. war in the Middle East. The Obama administration was embarrassed and one-upped by Russia’s diplomatic solution, and that’s […]
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More Americans Than Ever Think US ‘Should Mind Its Own Business’
December 4, 2013
For almost 50-years, the Pew Research Center has been polling on the question of whether Americans think the U.S. “should mind its own business internationally,” but only now, for the very first time, have a majority of Americans answered in the affirmative. I’m often wary to cite public opinion approvingly, mostly because it changes all […]
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EU Could Collapse PA to Pressure Israel
December 3, 2013
A senior European Union official today discussed the possibility of the EU causing the collapse of the Palestinian Authority if the current round of peace talks fail, with an eye toward pressing Israel to make some serious moves toward Palestinian statehood. The official, who was not named, noted that the funding was supposed to be […]
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