So you thought progressives would rally ‘round Edward Snowden’s and Glenn Greenwald’s crusade to rid us of the NSA incubus that’s attached itself to our computers and our daily lives. Well, you were wrong: dead wrong. With a few notable exceptions, the...

At least 21 people were killed, and 28 more were wounded in the latest attacks and clashes. Another 26 men were executed.

"He ended one war and kept us out of any other," is the tribute paid President Eisenhower. Ike ended the Korean conflict in 1953, refused to intervene to save the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, and, rather than back the British-French-Israeli invasion, ordered them...

President Obama has managed, with singular assistance from Congress and the courts, to mangle the Constitution through repeated abuses, attacks and evasions. This is nothing new, as I’ve documented in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police...

The most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps Major General Smedley Butler once wrote that "War is a racket." That was in 1935. If only he could see it now. The cash flow enabling the global war on terror which was launched in 2001 is astonishing,...

Yesterday, the government and allied Sunni tribes implemented a security operation in Anbar province, but they did not release figures until today. Also, a senior official warned of a worsening situation in the Falluja area. Meanwhile, Baghdad saw a number of bombings today, but only a few reports of violence came out of other regions. Overall, at least 73 Iraqis were killed and 111 more were wounded in the latest round of violence.

As the US continues and expands its worldwide "war on terror," extending its militarized tentacles into Africa as well as the Middle East, a festering threat looms closer to home: the ungluing of Mexico and its rapid descent into the status of a failed...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Spying has a history almost as ancient as humanity itself, but every now and then the rules of the game change. This post-9/11 moment of surveillance is one of those game-changers and the National Security Agency (NSA) has been the...

At least 31 people were killed and 58 more were wounded in attacks across Iraq. An unspecified number of people were also killed in clashes in Anbar province but those figures were not released. The Iraqi government, along with Sunni tribesmen, launched an assault on...

Bombings in the capital resumed today. Meahwhile, news out of Anbar province was scarce, perhaps due to militants streaming into the province. Overall, at least 40 people were killed and 94 were wounded.