“If you had free reign over classified networks…and you saw incredible things, awful things…things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC…what would you do?” read quotes from an online chat attributed to US Army Private Bradley Manning. “God knows what happens now. Hopefully worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms…I want people to see the truth…b ...

People often ask me, in terms of my argument about "ten steps" that mark the descent to a police state or closed society, at what stage we are. I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both US military and by commercial interests, into US airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in surveillance and with the capacity for weaponization – which is due to be ...

In an indication of the toll the conflicts may have taken on the mental health of servicemen and women, the data reveals that eight took their own lives during a deployment itself, while the other 42 killed themselves at some point afterwards. More than half of those who took their lives later – 23 of the 42 - committed suicide on Ministry of Defence (MoD) property, mainly in the UK. The figures, released t ...

A vehicle driven by a suicide bomber exploded at the gate of a US military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing the attacker and three Afghans, Afghan police said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Police said a local guard who questioned the driver at the gate of Camp Chapman was killed along with two civilians and the assailant. The camp is located next to the airport of the ...

Well folks, we waited a long time for a big disappointment. The poorly named Benghazi Accountability Review Board found the usual sacrificial lambs to take the blame while absolving all those above them, including Congress and Hillary. It was just business as usual in Washington, where dishonoring the dead is just another day at the office for some. When I was doing some preliminary work on this story Monda ...

  Well, it looks like Obama is going to attack Syria with at most token opposition by the national antiwar organizations, as was the case when he “phoned in” the order to bomb the crap out of Libya back on March 19, 2011. After a year’s worth of bloodshed in Libya and simultaneous drum-beating for invading Syria in the same manner, H.Con.Res. 107 was introduced on March 7, 2012 by Rep. Walter Jones (R- ...

  An award-winning American investigative journalist says US President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden should face charges of war crimes for the continuation of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Dave Lindorff, a contributor to Press TV website, quoted international law expert Francis Boyle as saying that President Obama and his administration are engaged in an “ongoing criminal conspiracy under in ...

  “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” – Aldous Huxley – Brave New World The world makes less sense every day. Little children are randomly slaughtered in their schoolrooms. Predator drones roam the skies over ...

  When an armed man opened fire on a crowded shopping mall in Oregon last week, 22-year-old Nick Meli pulled out his concealed carry permitted gun, and took cover in a store before taking aim. “I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself,” Meli reported of the gunman’s suicide that followed toKGW News Channel 8. Two people died at the hands of the shooter befor ...

  More than 30 top U.S. officials, including presidents G.W. Bush and Obama, are guilty of war crimes or crimes against peace and humanity “legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany,” the distinguished American international law authority Francis Boyle charges. U.S. officials involved in an “ongoing criminal conspiracy” in the Middle East and Africa who either participated ...