Six months ago, 20-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell, an American convert to Islam living with his parents in Green Township, Ohio, attracted the attention of the FBI. We don't know the reason for their initial interest, although it's likely Cornell's vocal adherence...
On June 26, 2003, CIA posted nuclear blueprints written in English on its website, claiming they were Iraqi.[/caption]“Very often you get a curveball thrown at you.”When Bob S, a longtime CIA operations manager working on Weapons of Mass Destruction...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Call it what you will – Iraq War 3.0, the war against ISIS, the new Syrian War – it was regularly headline-making news in this country in the second half of last year: the stunning advances of the Islamic State (IS)...
The photos of 40 of the world’s government leaders marching arm-in-arm along a Paris boulevard on Sunday with the president of the United States not among them was a provocative image that has fomented much debate. The march was, of course, in direct response to the...
Considering what Charlie Hebdo staffers suffered during the attack on their offices, followed by the nauseating sight of so many world leaders marching for the freedom of speech they support with heavy caveats at best, the lingering irreverence of the publication is...
For a moment, four years ago, it seemed that dictators in the Middle East would soon be a thing of the past. Back then, it looked like the United States would have to make good on its declared support for democracy, as millions of Tunisians, Egyptians, Bahrainis,...
Though not technically using its veto power, the Obama administration is responsible for the defeat of a draft UN Security Council resolution passed at the end of last month calling for a “just, lasting and comprehensive peaceful solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. About a year ago, I hit the road for a couple of months. I went to Albany and Albuquerque, Berkeley and Boston, Chapel Hill and Chicago, Seattle and Schenectady. I wasn’t reporting. I wasn’t writing. I sure wasn’t...
