‘Let it Snowden,’ the Chorus of 2013
It was two years ago that the name Julian Assange was skipping over holiday tables, provoking shouts of "traitor" or toasts of tribute in varying degree and vigor. The word "peace" never seemed so far away in 2010, but Assange, in shaking the very...
Iraq Attacks Against Pilgrims, Govt Buildings Leave 100 Dead and 183 Wounded
America’s Child Soldiers
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Another week, another revelation about spying by the National Security Agency. This time, it was the NSA’s infiltration of online video games and virtual realms like World of Warcraft and Second Life. And it was hardly a shock. More...
Who Was Robert Levinson Working For?
In March of 2007, former FBI agent and freelance investigator Robert Levinson traveled to the Iranian island of Kish, a resort hangout for smugglers and various dubious characters as well as tourists – and promptly vanished. For years, the US government stoutly...
Journalist Among 37 Killed in Iraq, 62 More Wounded
Bomb Targets Pilgrims; 34 Killed, 43 Wounded Across Iraq
46 Killed, 56 Wounded Across Iraq, As Iranian Gas Workers Massacred
Are the Senkakus Worth a War?
"The U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty of 1960 obligates the United States to treat any armed attack against any territories under the administration of Japan as dangerous to [America's] own peace and safety. This would cover such islets as the Senkakus also claimed...
Goliath: The Book That May Delegitimize Israel’s Apartheid State
Thanks to the Israel lobby’s slander campaign against Max Blumenthal and his new book, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, I not only learned things about the Jewish state that I never knew, I also made a wonderful discovery – but more about that later. I...