Nothing Says “Sorry Our Drones Hit Your Wedding Party” Like $800,000 And Some GunsOn December 12, 2013, a drone struck and killed 12 members of a wedding party in Yemen. If the U.S., which claims the strike was clean and justified, didn’t pony up the $800,000 in cash and guns as reparations, then who did ( Read more... )

Christian right secession fantasy: Spooky neo-Confederate talk grows louder at the fringes The religious right is spooked and making scary new allies. Some worry theocratic violence will soon be on the rise ( Read more... )

William R. Polk on American Grand Strategy for Iraq, Syria, and the Region
"We win each battle, but the battles keep happening. And to our chagrin, we don't seem to be winning the wars. By almost any criterion, we are less 'victorious' today than half a century ago."

The diplomat and scholar William R. Polk (right) first wrote about the Middle ( Read more... )

The War Nerd: Here’s everything you need to know about “too extreme for Al Qaeda” I.S.I.S.

As the Scriptures remind us, “Do not believe the hype.” The hype of the moment is ISIS, the Sunni militia that just drove the so-called Iraqi Army out of Mosul, Tikrit, and other Iraqi cities.
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This Wouldnt Have Happened if Putin Was a Sekret Black Amurikan Mooslim Bent on Imposing Sharia Law.

Ex- CIA Chief: Why We Keep Getting Putin WrongBlame a myopic mindset-and an intelligence corps focused on terrorism, not Moscow ( Read more... )

Brazil's Globo news program reports revelations based on documents obtained by Glenn Greenwald from Edward Snowden


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The US Surveillance State Dates Back to the 19th Century
How today's national security policies harken back to Vietnam, World War I, and the 1898 occupation of the Philippines

The American surveillance state is now an omnipresent reality, but its deep history is little known and its future little grasped. Edward Snowden's leaked documents reveal ( Read more... )

Death Machine Guarantees 100% Lethal Dose of Radiation, Or Your Money Back!

2 wanted device used on enemies, officials say
Suspect taped promising to build "Hiroshima on a light switch"

A plot to design a radiation weapon that could fit in a small van and be used to silently kill humans was unraveled by an FBI task force that charged two men - a ( Read more... )