Sometimes, it’s hard to grasp just how our world has been transformed since September 11, 2001. But here’s a little exchange at NBC Nightly News a few days back – just part of the humdrum flow of TV news-chat – that somehow caught my attention. News anchor Brian...
Politics and Persona: Edward Snowden as Symbol
The debate provoked by Edward Snowden's revelations is drawing new battle lines in American politics, and redefining the image of the US in the eyes of the world. As Snowden's personal fate, and his dramatic hegira from a Hawaiian paradise to the world's drabbest...
Why Innocent People Should Fear the NSA’s PRISM Program
The use of warrantless surveillance by the NSA has brought a wave of naïve statements from a segment of Americans who claim they have nothing to fear from NSA surveillance of their telephone calls and internet traffic because they've done nothing wrong....
A Syria ‘No-fly Zone’ and Just War Theory
Now that the White House has come to the conclusion that Bashar al-Assad has indeed employed chemical weapons on a small scale against the Syrian opposition, the questions over what to do next have taken on ever greater urgency. Speaking to CNN recently, Sen. John...
Kids Playing Soccer Among 23 Killed in Iraq
Iraqi Sports Fans Targeted Again; 28 Killed, 51 Wounded
Israel and the War Party Have Panicked over Rowhani’s Election as Iran’s President
On the eve of Iran’s presidential elections of 17 June 2005, George W. Bush declared that the elections did not have any legitimacy, because "Iran’s president has no power." But, after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected, refused to stop Iran’s uranium...
Ozymandias
For the past six months, the quisling regime in Belgrade justified a policy of consenting to rape with a promise of a promise: if only Serbia would submit to every demand from Brussels and Washington, it would receive from Brussels a promise of a date on which...
A Fourth Day of Attacks on Iraq Sports Fans: 41 Killed, 57 Wounded
Smearing Glenn Greenwald: The Gregorian Connection
The campaign to demonize Edward Snowden, whose revelations about the National Security Agency's ubiquitous and ongoing spying on the American public has the Obama regimein furious disrray, has taken on a new dimension – now they're going after Glenn Greenwald, the...