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Peace, Order and Windy Government
Chuztpah is one of those wonderful Hebrew words that have wandered into the English lexicon and finds constant expression both in literature and popular idiom. It is a synonym for…
The Arctic and the Government’s Cowboy Solution
WIRED magazine is reporting that the Canadian government is about to spend half a million dollars on a prototype for a “stealth snowmobile”. This is the latest in a line…
Bahrain: Abandoned by the Arabs, Forsaken by the West
As we listen to the nightly news, we hear about Arab uprisings in Libya and Syria (a lot because these stories are current and they hold the promise of showing some…
CIA Caught Training New York Police to Spy on American Muslims
When I read the brilliant report by the Associated Press about the cozy and very secret relationship between the New York City Police Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, I…
Internet Censorship in our Backyard
The most important event of 2011 was the tide of revolution that swept across the Middle East. While the protests in those countries were stunning in their unity—men and women,…
Jordan: Serious Reform?
Did the Arab Spring ever come to Jordan? Yes, but it would be hard to know that from America’s mainstream media. With just a few notable exceptions, Jordan has been…
Small Legal Victory Against the Torture Team
Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, two American citizens who were held and tortured by the American government in Iraq, won a legal victory for accountability last week. The US Court…
Assad Still in State of Denial
Last week, as Syrian dissidents continued to turn out in their tens of thousands – facing death — to oppose President Basher el-Assad’s Syrian regime, the country’s cabinet took two…
When Governments Take a Leak, it Can Smell Very Bad
The recent leak to La Presse of an alleged CSIS document implicating Adil Charkaoui and Abousfian Abdelrazik in a plot to bomb an airliner raises the most serious issues. These…
Drought and a CIA Prison Arrive in Somalia
The CIA is involved in rendering suspected terrorists from Kenya to Somalia and interrogating them in a secret prison just outside Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to Jeremy Scahill of The…
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