Category: National Security
Tom Engelhardt: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Why American Imperial War Has Come Home
by Tom Engelhardt | Apr 23, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National Security(Jeremy Scahill’s new book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, which reports on America’s covert operations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, was made into a documentary that competed at the Sundance Film Festival in January.) Editor’s note: In today’s post from TomDispatch.com, Tom Engelhardt once against connects the dots. In focusing on […]
Gene Seymour: Media’s Failed Scoops Reflect Pressure to Maintain Corporate Branding
by Gene Seymour | Apr 22, 2013 | Legal Affairs, National Security(CNN’s John King reported last week that arrests had been made when none had. AP and Fox News followed suit.) By Friday night, when we all felt as though we were craning our necks around police cordons to get a better view of the action through our motley screens, it seemed as though the television […]
Sebastian Rotella: Bombing Suspects Echo Home-Grown Terrorists in Madrid, London
by Sebastian Rotella | Apr 21, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National Security(Boston was locked down Friday as police searched for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: AP via CSM) As an eighth-grader in a Cambridge public school, suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was quiet, friendly, spoke good English and seemed at home in his adopted country. While hundreds of police officers pursued the 19-year-old during a nationally-televised rampage across […]
M.J. Rosenberg: Senate Tells Israel War with Iran Is OK
by M.J. Rosenberg | Apr 17, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityIt is customary for Congress to pass resolutions commending Israel on the anniversary of its founding in 1948. Once these resolutions were innocuous with references to “making the desert bloom” and “ingathering” Jewish refugees. Standard “pro-Israel” boilerplate. No more. In recent years Congress, with the Israel lobby’s eager assistance, has coupled salutations and congratulations with […]
Tom Engelhardt: North Korea, the War on Terror and the Enemy-Industrial Complex
by Tom Engelhardt | Apr 15, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityThe communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration. Guam, Hawaii, Washington: all, it claims, are targetable. The coverage in the media has been hair-raising. The U.S. is rushing an untested missile defense system to Guam, deploying missile-interceptor ships off the South […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety