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Obama Speaks (Some) Truth From Power

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Obama's Nobel lecture might have showed us that the US has reached a turning point: either the national security monster we've created is going to eat us alive by bankrupting the country or we're going to have to shift course.

Afghanistan: The American Experience (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.15.2009 | Books


Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...

Slain Al-Qaeda Leader Posthumously Named Employee of the Month

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.12.2009 | Comedy


Andy Borowitz

In a new videotape broadcast today on Al-Jazeera, terror mastermind Osama bin Laden named fallen terrorist Abu Yahya al-Libi Al-Qaeda's "Employee of the Month" for December.

Left, Right & Center: Nobel Speech, Bank Bonuses, Health Care, Blackwater and the CIA

Huff Radio | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics


Huff Radio

Obama's muscular moralism? Irreconcilable concepts? A new direction? LRC weighs in on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

CIA's Blackwater Ties Run Deep, Private Firm Participated In Covert Raids

AP | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and A...

Najibullah Zazi Case: Arthur Folsom No Longer Representing Terror Defendant

AP | Posted 12.07.2009 | Denver


DENVER — A Denver lawyer thrust into the international spotlight while representing a Colorado man accused of plotting a terrorist attack is no ...

The Winds of War

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 12.07.2009 | World


Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Redoubling the effort in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater will only indirectly deny terrorists the kind of safe havens they need to plan another 9/11 scale attack.

C.I.A. Expanding Drone Attacks Inside Pakistan

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 12.04.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering widening missile strikes on al-Qaida and the Taliban inside Pakistan and is planning to bol...

Anthropology Association Condemns Work with U.S. Counterinsurgency

Jeff Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | World


Jeff Stein

Anthropologists should not be helping U.S. military forces gather information about Afghan villagers and their way of life, a study commission sponsored by their academic organization said today.

The Failure of the Federalist, No. 10

Shahid Buttar | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics


Shahid Buttar

Will President Obama serve as the beacon of hope in government that he pretended to be throughout last year's campaign, or did he merely pander to the public in order to pursue his personal ambitions?

Christmas Eavesdropping: Affordable Spy Gizmos for Your Friends and Enemies

Keith Thomson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology


Keith Thomson

The latest in finding out who's naughty and nice... ...

CIA Secrets Revealed: Magician Taught CIA Sleight Of Hand Used In Cold War Espionage

Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.28.2009 | Books


The Cold War made for strange partners -- including the CIA and a well-known magician named John Mulholland. In 1953, Mulholland was hired by the C.I....

"CIA Manual Of Trickery And Deception" Declassified, Now On Sale

Posted 11.24.2009 | Books


If you have ever wanted to learn how to slink around unnoticed and send hidden signals like a real CIA agent during the Cold War, then you are in luck...

Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama

William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2009 | World


William Bradley

Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.

Blackwater's Secret War In Pakistan

The Nation | Jeremy Scahill | Posted 11.23.2009 | World


At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite di...

Annals of Unsolved Crime: The Oswald Mystery

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics


Edward Jay Epstein

The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.

Pakistan: 8 Militants Killed In Reported US Strike

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 11.21.2009 | World


PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A security guard has been wounded in an explosion outside the office of a non-governmental organization in the main city in...

CIA Secret Prison Found At Horseback Riding School In Lithuania

ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World


The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed To Face New York Trial (VIDEOS)

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York


WASHINGTON — Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a ci...

CIA Wins Epic Turf Battle With Intelligence Czar

newsweek.com | Mark Hosenball | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


The CIA has decisively won a long-running turf fight with the director of national intelligence, the CIA's ostensible boss, over who will be the top U...

A National Security Act for the 21st Century

Gary Hart | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Gary Hart

NATO has yet to define a 21st century mission. There are new security threats that do not lend themselves to military response and that cannot be addressed either by old alliances or by the US alone.

Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books


In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee Table

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics


Allison Kilkenny

The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a "bugged coffee table."

Gorbachev's Sermon on the Mount

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


Robert Scheer

When Gorbachev came to power he, like Obama, inherited a war that was not in the interest of his nation. If the response of a Soviet dictator was to end it, might we not be justified in doing the same?

The True Story of Area 51's UFOs

Keith Thomson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology


Keith Thomson

Area 51 is heard in the same breath as Roswell, Amityville and Loch Ness. But now, with the CIA's declassification of aircraft testing there, we can finally know the truth.