Nineteen years ago, Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at the secret nuclear weapons production facility at Dimona in Israel, did something that he was right to do, something that others with his knowledge of Israel's nuclear activities and their implications for Israeli...
Who’s the S.O.B.?
Here's a question for international news hounds. Who is the "son of a bitch" referred to in this comment by a U.S. Defense Department spokesman? "People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?" Is he an unnamed Defense...
Gaza Moves Into Unsettling Times
GUSH KATIF, Gaza Strip - Israel's government last week postponed the implementation of its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip for three weeks, ostensibly to take into account an annual Jewish period of mourning. One look around the settlements and a few conversations with...
What’s ‘American’ About the American Israel Public Affairs Committee?
The FBI's decision in early May to arrest Lawrence Franklin, the Pentagon analyst accused of disclosing classified information about U.S. forces in Iraq, has put in the spotlight the work of an influential pro-Israel lobbying outfit, the American Israel Public Affairs...
Karimovs American Fan Club
Divert, deny, defame that's the strategy of the War Party as the consequences of their policies reap piles of dead bodies worldwide and increase the threat of terrorism against Americans. It doesn't matter that the now-famous Newsweek story about U.S....
America’s Reputation in Tatters
George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America's reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America's reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress...
The Media and the Madness Of Militarism
Media activism has achieved a lot. But I don't believe there's anything to be satisfied with considering the present-day realities of corporate media and the warfare state. War has become a constant of U.S. foreign policy, and media flackery for the warmakers...
The Smoking Gun Memo
In its June 9 issue (on sale this week), the New York Review of Books will be the first American print publication to publish the full British "smoking gun" document, the secret memorandum of the minutes of a meeting of Tony Blair's top advisors in July 2002, eight...
Conflicting Security Assessments Breed Suspicion of Govt Claims
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials say government steps have made it more difficult for terrorists to operate in the United States even as leaders of an investigative panel assail Washington for moving too slowly to protect the nation and the...
Media Coverage of Intelligence Manipulation Reflects Public Acceptance of Imperial Presidency
http://www.independent.org/tii/antiwar/e050517.html


