‘For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens during the Cold War. But the Stasi’s capabilities pale in comparison to what the […]
‘The leak trial of CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling never got near a smoking gun, but the entire circumstantial case was a smokescreen. Prosecutors were hell-bent on torching the defendant to vindicate Operation Merlin, nine years […]
‘Politicians and lawyers pretend that they are important people doing important work. But often they’re important because they are parasites. They feed off others, while creating no wealth of their own. We all complain about […]
‘Our BRAIN requires amino acids to make neurotransmitters which regulate our brain power, our memory and our mood. What we eat has a tremendous effect on our levels of neurotransmitters and therefore on mood. Stress […]
‘Americans love their reality TV shows—the drama, the insults, the bullying, the callousness, the damaged relationships delivered through the lens of a surveillance camera—and there’s no shortage of such dehumanizing spectacles to be found on […]
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‘President Obama released his Fiscal Year 2016 budget proposal today, and when it comes to the drug war budget, it’s largely more of the same old same old. Despite the growing realization that the war […]
‘There was the old American lefty paper, the Guardian, and the Village Voice, which beat the Sixties into the world, and its later imitators like the Boston Phoenix. There was Liberation News Service, the Rat […]
‘American Sniper has been nominated for six Oscars, including best film and best leading actor; it has broken box-office records for war movies, and it’s generating heated debate.’ Read more: ‘American Sniper’: Humanizing and Glorifying […]
‘Israel has called for the termination of a UN inquiry into its summer 2014 war on Gaza, in the wake of the resignation of the investigation committee’s head. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for […]
‘America’s massive military spending is ‘very disturbing,’ taking into account the country’s urgent domestic needs, an American international relations scholar says. ‘It’s very upsetting that the military budget of the United States is even higher […]
‘The New York State attorney general’s office accused four major retailers on Monday of selling fraudulent and potentially dangerous herbal supplements and demanded that they remove the products from their shelves.’ Read more: New York […]
‘Complaints against police have reached a record high with thousands of officers accused of being rude and lazy. Almost 35,000 cases were brought against forces in England and Wales last year, according to the independent […]
‘One need not go back to Greek mythology to see the obvious parallels. Both leaders share an identity as war criminals, Netanyahu, brazenly using the so-called War on Terrorism as pretext for extending Israeli power […]