Washington’s drone wars against countless countries receives far too little media scrutiny (is it because the White House says they’re killing “terrorists” and clueless reporters believe it?) and… private companies are increasingly involved. Joshua Foust writes in the Atlantic that the US should be worried: The Intelligence Community (IC) as a whole has been reoriented to…
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Unaccountable companies assisting America’s drone wars
The future is here, corporations who know the US military (and other countries, too) love nothing better than finding new ways to kill “enemies” (via McClatchy Newspapers): After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian had played…
First they came for the Tweeters
There are growing signs of collusion between the Zionist lobby, fundamentalists who want the government to tell us what to hear and see and politicians such as Joe Lieberman who never saw a war against Muslims they didn’t like. Now this. It must be resisted: Twitter has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli…
Become a reporter and insider (if you think that’s your role)
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, one of America’s finest commentators and reporters, on what journalism has mostly become today; individuals who love power and want to be close to it. Not all of us sell that lie:
Memo to blind Zionists; never-ending occupation is having a PR problem
Interesting piece in Salon that will be familiar to many of us but the key theme is that debate in the US over Israel/Palestine is shifting and the Israeli Foreign Ministry can’t dictate as much as before: Criticism of the special relationship, once rare, is now frequent.… Newsweek/Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan … has become a… regularsource… of attacks on…
Turboparalysis is our future so get with the program
Michael Lind says in Salon that this is our current state of affairs and it ain’t going anywhere: If a neologism could capture the national and global politics of our time, in the way that “stagflation” captured the combination of stagnation and inflation in the economy of the 1970s, I would propose “turboparalysis” for the…