Category: National Security
Analysis: AP Fiasco May Foreshadow Rest of Obama’s Term
by Doug Daniels | May 15, 2013 | National Security, Politics(The Justice Department kept tabs on Associated Press reporters. If President Obama doesn’t drop the hubris and show real leadership, says Doug Daniels, the next three and a half years are going to stuffed with congressional hearings and hit-job investigations by giddy Republicans, and we can forgot about advancing any progressive agenda, like gun control. […]
M.J. Rosenberg: Time to Admit U.S. Policies Can Cause Terrorism
by M.J. Rosenberg | Apr 24, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National Security(Men gathered to protest drone strikes in Yemen in January: Times of London) There is one change that the United States could make in response to the terrorism threat that is never discussed. That is to consider the part U.S. policies have played in creating and sustaining it. I understand that we are not supposed […]
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 […]