After years of waiting, the US is about to publish a report exposing the “enhanced” interrogation techniques used by its intelligence service around the world – in other words, what many class as CIA torture.
The implications of the report...
Since its creation after WWII, Israel and friends have been masters at manipulating emotions, endlessly invoking the memory of Hitler’s Germany as a pretext for starting further wars as in the recent Holocaust-themed propaganda against Syria’s government.
“The irony is...
PAUL HOLTOM, MARK BROMLEY, PIETER D. WEZEMAN AND SIEMON T. WEZEMAN
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The volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons continues to increase. The average annual level for the period 2005–2009 was 22 per cent higher than the...
by Sam Hamod, Ph.D.
This article will be short and to the point.
One of the “national security” thugs, Clapper,has already been caught perjuring himself; upsettingly, he has not been prosecuted. Let us find out what will, or should, happen to...
RALPH NADER
The annual Academy Awards Gala, viewed by one billion people worldwide, is scheduled for the evening of March 2, 2014. Motion pictures and the people who act in and produce them are center stage. Apart from the documentaries,...
20-years-old Sage Kotsenburg of the United States became the first gold medalist of the Sochi Winter Olympics on Saturday when he won the men's snowboard slopestyle event at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
Kotsenburg’s first run scored 93.50 and although...
PLEASE WAKE UP because EVERY HOUR a veteran commits suicide, veterans make up the highest adult homeless population in the U.S. and they have an epidemic of PTSD, and when YOU BLINDLY chant 'support the troops' and other bullshit...
JEREMY SCAHILL is National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute.
Scahill is author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books, 2007). Nation Books...
By Chris Hedges
The rewriting of history by the power elite was painfully evident as the nation marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Some claimed they had opposed the war when they had not. Others...
Fresh evidence has been revealed about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein's foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction.
Tony Blair told parliament before...
