Autopsy: WH ‘gate crasher’ shot by cops in the back of head
April 8, 2014
Miriam Carey is dead and will never be able to tell us what happened on that fateful Oct. 3 day when she led police on a high speed chase through the busy downtown streets of Capitol Hill and was killed shortly after, before she could even exit her car, her 1-year-old daughter in the back […]
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Killer Drones in a Downward Spiral?
April 7, 2014
by Medea Benjamin and Kate Chandley Illegal US drone strikes continue (the Long War Journal says there have been 8 drones strikes in Yemen so far this year), but efforts to curb the use of killer drones have made remarkable headway this year. While the faith-based community has taken far too long to address the […]
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Sy Hersh on Democracy Now Discussing Turkish Role in Syria Chemical Weapons Incident
April 7, 2014
Antiwar.com is linking to Seymour Hersh’s latest report indicating the potential role of the Turkish government in unleashing the chemical agent sarin in Syria last year and the possibility that it was done intentionally in order to instigate a U.S. military action against the Assad regime. Hersh spoke about the piece on Democracy Now:
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The Less Americans Know About Ukraine, the More Likely They Advocate Intervention
April 7, 2014
This should be rather obvious, but a recent study shows that the less informed you are, the worse your policy recommendations are likely to be. Specifically, you are much more likely to advocate U.S. military intervention in Ukraine if you’re also someone who can’t find Ukraine on a map. Washington Post: On March 28-31, 2014, […]
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Art Group in Pakistan Shows Drone Operators Who They’re Killing
April 7, 2014
Business Insider: In military slang, Predator drone operators often refer to kills as ‘bug splats’, since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed. To challenge this insensitivity as well as raise awareness of civilian casualties, an artist collective installed a massive portrait facing up in the heavily bombed […]
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Human Rights Watch: The US Is Blocking Palestinian Statehood, Rights
April 7, 2014
After the U.S. and Israel delivered a one-sided, unacceptable interim agreement to the Palestinians last week, the PLO and Mahmoud Abbas decided to pursue further accession at the United Nations, building on its attainment of non-member observer status in 2012. In a press release yesterday, Human Rights Watch condemned the United States for opposing Palestinian […]
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Former FBI Agent: FBI’s Authority Greater Now Than At Any Time Since COINTELPRO
April 7, 2014
Here’s a worthwhile interview with Brennan Center’s Mike German, a 16-year veteran of the FBI, on excessive secrecy, incompetence, and threat inflation in the FBI and the intelligence community. Also from VICE and also on the FBI, Charles Davis wrote a great piece on the FBI’s pursuit of anti-war activists. Read it here.
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Stop Competing With China For Hegemony in East Asia
April 4, 2014
In a post titled “US Warns China: Don’t Pull a Crimea,” The American Interest notes the Obama administration’s efforts to maintain a credible military threat as a bulwark against China’s disputed maritime and territorial claims in the South China Sea: The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia issued a stern warning to Beijing yesterday: Don’t […]
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The US Is Still Trying to Overthrow the Cuban Government
April 3, 2014
According to the Associated Press, the U.S. government is still engaged in efforts to overthrow the Cuban government. Starting in 2010, a group of U.S. officials working for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) hired high-tech contractors to stir up revolution in Cuba via social media. According to documents obtained by The Associated Press and […]
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What Happens If Bahrain Turns to Civil War?
April 3, 2014
Much of the hawkish commentary on Syria has centered around this notion that inaction led the al-Qaeda elements in the rebel opposition to metastasize. If only we had intervened early on, before the deepening of the civil war and all the blood-letting, we could have empowered the democratic elements of the early protest movement, they […]
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