Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]
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Pentagon: Americans must give up Liberties to fight “enemies” but we won’t say who they are (Currier)
Cora Currier writes at ProPublica In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war […]
Egypt: Military announces ‘War on Terror,’ Calls for Massive Demos Against Muslim Brotherhood
Here are two videos from AFP that help explain all those people milling in the street today in Egypt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Minister […]
Tunisia Plunged into Crisis by Second Political Assassination
The assassination Thursday of opposition member of parliament Mohamed Brahmi (from the small far left Popular Front coalition) shook the country for the second time […]
Pakistan: Civilian Drone Casualties from Poor US Intelligence: Gen. Shah (Woods)
Chris Woods writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: US officials are claiming that an internal Pakistani assessment of civilian deaths from US drone strikes […]
What Congress Could do about NSA Spying if It were Serving the People (Brandeisky)
Kara Brandeisky writes at ProPublica: Although the House defeated a measure that would have defunded the bulk phone metadata collection program, the narrow 205-217 vote […]
Congress betrays vow to Uphold Constitution, abrogates 4th Amendment; Snowden is Better
The US House of Representatives narrowly declined on Wednesday to deny funding for National Security Agency collection and storage of millions of Americans’ phone records. […]
Top Ten Things Anthony “Carlos Danger” Weiner has said that are worse than Sexting
Reprint Edition: The real scandal surrounding Anthony Weiner is that he is bigoted against Palestinians and used to misuse his position in Congress to support […]
Israel’s Newly Multi-Cultural Army Stirs Controversy: Ultra-Orthodox Jews & Palestinian-Israeli Christians (Goldman)
Shalom Goldman writes at IslamiCommentary: Shalom Goldman A report by the Times of Israel yesterday said religious opponents were reciting psalms, blowing the ram’s horn, […]
A Tale of Two Bombings: Libya too Weak, Egypt too Strong
On Tuesday, someone set up a Soviet-vintage 107 mortar launcher in a car outside the five-star Corinthia hotel in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, and lobbed a […]
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