Is I a Real Juornalist?
I thought journalists were supposed to think, but a piece by Tara McKelvey (photo), A Bigger Kill Than Bin Laden, is so sadly just stenography for the government that I hope she was paid off to jot it...
View ArticleDrone News
Given the state of affairs in Congress and Washington in general, it is no surprise that the big news is all about drones. Yes, America’s robotic killers in the sky– other than assassinating American...
View ArticleCIA Lying to Who about Sexy Drones?
Who? Whom? I don’t know, but that is not today’s money question. Today is about those oh! so sexy drones that somehow make war even better. The Washington Post reports on a series of deceptive...
View ArticleObama to Iran: Give Us Our Drone Back
Obama revealed the request for the return of the drone–which fell to earth in Iran recently, and has since been flaunted in video footage by the Iranian government–during a Monday White House news...
View ArticleWoo Hoo! Obama Sends Troops to Yet Another Country to Kill Muslims!
Obama is sending five American military officers to South Sudan amid recent outbreaks of violence in the newly independent African nation. In response to the violence, Obama issued a separate...
View ArticleStarted They Have, the State Department Drone Wars
Alert readers of this blog already knew that the State Department maintains its own air force at the World’s Most Expensive Embassy in Iraq, fixed wing, rotary wing and drones. The aircraft are flown...
View ArticleWe Take Care of Our Own: Eric Holder and the End of Rights
(This post also appeared on the Huffington Post on March 6, 2012) Historians of the future, if they are not imprisoned for saying so, will trace the end of America’s democratic experiment to the...
View ArticleMichael Moore.com Supports We Meant Well
Thinking they can sell their version of events– punish the whistleblower (me) instead of investigating the allegations ($44 billion wasted on Iraq reconstruction)– the State Department continues its...
View ArticleState Department to Acquire Own Drone Fleet
According to NextGov, the State Department plans on acquiring its own fleet of (so far unarmed) aerial drones. Because sure, why not? Nothing says “diplomacy” these days better than showing some swag...
View ArticleEat This, Not That
Eat this… Not that. Yes, another great moment in public diplomacy. We congratulate the public diplomacists at the Department of State for changing minds and winning hearts with their wicked Tweeting....
View ArticleUS Drone Policy and Wedding Day Massacres
It probably hasn’t been the most popular thing to do, but I’m glad that TomDispatch has been one place that has continued to focus on the “collateral damage” of our recent wars and is the only website...
View ArticleHow Obama’s Targeted Killings, Leaks, and the Everything-Is-Classified State...
If you missed my article on Obama’s Ultimate No-Fly List, targeted drone killings, and how they relate to his leaking of good news, prosecuting those who disclose bad news strategy, it is now available...
View ArticleAmerica is Safer: Khan Detained and Questioned by TSA in Canada
Imran Khan, a former cricket star, and Pakistani politician critical of U.S. drone strikes, says American authorities detained and questioned him at a Canadian airport. He had boarded a plane in...
View ArticleHappy Day After Election Day
I expect to wake up on November 7 late, with an angry absinthe and Miller Lite hangover, so decided to write this blog post ahead of time. Congratulations to _____, the winner. Democracy, peaceful...
View ArticleSpirit in the Night
“Who the hell are you?” “Why Barack, I’m the Ghost of Presidential Legacies Past.” “What are you doing here? It’s just Thanksgiving. I thought you guys visited on Christmas Eve, anyway. It starts...
View ArticleSticking to Our Rights to Protect Our Rights
Q: If a foreign organization kills an American overseas for political reasons, it is called… A: Terrorism. Q: If the United States kills an American overseas for political reasons, it is called… A:...
View ArticleReview: Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
There are ghosts in Washington that few will talk about, roaming the halls of the Pentagon, inside the State Department and the CIA, and at the White House, moaning “Vietnam, Vietnam.” Nick Turse, in...
View ArticleEric Holder is Not a Patriot
Eric Holder has told us that he “recused” himself from decisions the organization he heads made to help destroy freedom of the press in the United States by seizing the phone records of the Associated...
View ArticleObama Killed Four Americans with Drones Since Nobel Peace Prize
Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that U.S. drone strikes since 2009 have killed four Americans — three of whom were “not specifically targeted.” As Dangeroom reports, for all the effort that...
View ArticleThis Memorial Day: Remembering 4,700 Killed by US Drones
This Memorial Day, in addition to our own dead, we remember the 4,700 people (estimated; the actual body count is classified and/or unknown) killed by American drones. While some were terrible people,...
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