Time To Publish The Remaining NSA PowerPoint Slides – OpEd
The Los Angeles Times reports: Google is asking the Obama administration for permission to disclose more information about requests it gets from national intelligence agencies for its users’ emails and…
How The NSA Prevented The Boston Bombing – OpEd
The New York Times reports: The [National Security] agency’s ability to efficiently mine metadata, data about who is calling or e-mailing, has made wiretapping and eavesdropping on communications far less…
FBI Places Most Americans Under Surveillance – OpEd
The National Security Agency at the request of the FBI is keeping a record of everywhere you go and everyone you talk to at all times. Since, as The Guardian…
Obama’s Brutal Pragmatism – OpEd
There are many Americans — and I expect they include Barack Obama — who drew a lesson from the Bush-Cheney era that there is no greater danger than comes from…
Is This Really A Momentous Turning Point In Post-9/11 America? – OpEd
“For the record, I do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any U.S. citizen — with a drone, or with a shotgun —…
No-Drama Counter-Terrorism: What Ingrid Loyau-Kennett Can Teach America – OpEd
In South East London yesterday, when Ingrid Loyau-Kennett approached Michael Adebolajo who in his blood-drenched hands held a knife and a meat cleaver after having just murdered a British soldier,…
Terrorism And Imagination – OpEd
Clyde Haberman, a columnist for the New York Times, seems to have more interest in telling readers what he ate for lunch, than in attempting to imagine or convey what…
Foreign Fantasies And Syria – OpEd
“So many foreign fighters have joined the Syrian insurgency that one wonders if their [sic] is role left for any indigenous Syrian insurgent,” writes “Bernhard” at Moon of Alabama today.…
How The Obama Administration Is Strangling Press Freedom – OpEd
Whether or not this has been formulated in written policy, it seems clear that the way the Obama administration attempts to control the release of classified information is by trying…
Abuse Of Psychiatry In US Far More Extensive Than Occured In Soviet Union – OpEd
Yes, the headline could sound like hyperbole, but profound criticism of the ways in which psychiatric diagnoses are being applied is now coming from one of the leading bodies in…
‘America At Its Worst’ – OpEd
The Boston Globe reports: The secret transport of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body from Worcester to a small community near Richmond, Va., was set in motion by a…
Benjamin Netanyahu Wants To Teach Stephen Hawking How To Be A Scientist – OpEd
The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu slammed Prof. Stephen Hawking for joining the boycott against Israel and cancelling plans to attend President Shimon Peres’s conference next month, saying…
The American Papacy – OpEd
Robert E. Hunter, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, writes: [T]he president can be said to have painted himself into a corner with Syria on two occasions, initially as early…
How Did ‘National Interest’ Become A Politically Neutral Term? – OpEd
Daniel Larison writes: Bill Keller confirms that he has not really learned any of the lessons of the Iraq war: Of course, there are important lessons to be drawn from…
Obama: Guantánamo Is ‘Not Sustainable’ – OpEd
The presidential commentator-in-chief says that Guantánamo is not sustainable — and 100 prisoners on hunger strike seems to reinforce that observation. But Obama used to like to talk about the…
Is American Credibility Really On The Line? – OpEd
By claiming that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would be a “game changer,” President Obama seems to have boxed himself in and made intervention in Syria inevitable —…
Faith-Based Skepticism On Chemical Weapons – OpEd
Faith-based skepticism might seem like a contradiction in terms and thus it never fails to amaze me the frequency with which doubt and blind faith are conjoined in some people’s…
Guantánamo Reveals America’s True Character: How One Cowboy President Was Replaced By Another – OpEd
“I don’t want to just end the war, I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place,” Barack Obama said referring to Iraq while…
Time To Talk About The War On Islam – OpEd
A 60 Minutes report which aired on Sunday provided a glimpse of the 9/11 Museum in New York, currently under construction and scheduled to open next year. The report underlined…
Searching For Future Terrorists, And Unicorns – OpEd
A future terrorist is as real as a unicorn, yet I guarantee if Homeland Security went to a Congressional appropriations committee and asked for additional funding to improve their ability…
How Boston Exposes The Frailty Of American Democracy – OpEd
In the aftermath of 9/11, there were many political leaders and commentators who said that the attacks should serve as a warning that terrorists had the potential to cause even…
Why Always YouTube? Which Were The Terrorists’ Netflix Picks? – OpEd
It has become so commonplace, no one gives it a second thought: nothing tells us more about a terrorist’s radical leanings than the jihadist videos and extremist sermons that show…
America’s Willingness To Be Terrified By Terrorism – OpEd
Numerous times this week, the question has been raised about whether the perpetrators of the Marathon bombing might have been inspired by Inspire — the online magazine published by al-Qaeda…
Life Before Earth – OpEd
Panspermia — the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe — has been kicking around among astrophysicists for decades, one of its most recent and prominent proponents being Stephen Hawking.…
Terrorism Is Here To Stay, But Terror Is Optional – OpEd
I don’t have a problem with the word terrorism. An act designed to kill and maim large numbers of people and provoke fear in many more, can reasonably be called…
Speculating About The Boston Bombings – OpEd
During the first hour after the atrocity in Boston, journalists and others were quick to exercise what I would call zealous caution: don’t talk about bombs — all we know…
The New Slavery: How Patent Law Is Being Used To Turn Life Into Property – OpEd
Mastercard stole the word priceless. But even if they hadn’t, the ideas of uniqueness and unquantifiable value only skirt around the edges of intrinsic value. I think it was the…
Reporting From Syria – OpEd
Olly Lambert writes: There’s a private bar in London whose members are nearly all war correspondents. The men and women standing at the bar could easily convince you that war…
The Rise And Fall Of Margaret Thatcher – OpEd
In ‘Revolution,’ an episode from Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain, his assessment of Margaret Thatcher becomes most unpalatable when he veers towards gushing admiration, yet more importantly he highlights…
People Are Not Illegal – OpEd
The Associated Press has taken the bold move of proscribing the use of “illegal immigrant” in an update to its widely used style guide. Except in direct quotes essential to…
Why Many American Workers Should Be More Afraid Of Their Employers Than Al Qaeda – OpEd
The New York Times reports: Sheri Farley walks with a limp. The only job she could hold would be one where she does not have to stand or sit longer…
U.S. Army Veteran Eric Harroun: Arrested For Picking Up An RPG In Syria? – OpEd
Eric Harroun, a former US Army soldier from Phoenix, was arrested shortly after landing at Dulles International Airport on Wednesday. He has been charged with conspiring to use a rocket…
Obama’s Effort To Prolong The War In Syria – OpEd
“I am very concerned about Syria becoming an enclave for extremism because extremists thrive in chaos, they thrive in failed states, they thrive in power vacuums,” President Obama said at…
Homes Found And Homes Lost – OpEd
As President Obama correctly noted in his speech in Jerusalem, Zionism and America’s founding myth spring from a common quest: the yearning for a homeland. But this human search is…
The Rise Of The Global South – OpEd
Richard Rodriguez writes: We Americans have long told ourselves that we are a God-favored people, a churchgoing, moral people. But last week when the old cardinals of Roman Catholicism looked…
Obama Helps Promote Myth Of Racially Integrated Israel – OpEd
I imagine the White House think it’s good to help promote the status of an African first — Israel’s first African-born Miss Israel. And no doubt Israeli leaders welcome a…
Why The Character Of The New Pope Matters – OpEd
“Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative…
American Jews Investing Their Tax Dollars In Israel Want More In Return – OpEd
Rabbi Jill Jacobs writes that a group of North American rabbis, cantors, rabbinical and cantorial students from all denominations of Judaism, who in January were petitioning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
Targeted Killing And Political Assassination – OpEd
“Anwar al-Awlaki, the firebrand preacher, born in New Mexico, who had evolved from a peddler of Internet hatred to a senior operative in Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen” — thus…
Imagine: Obama’s Historic Speech In Bethlehem – OpEd
Haaretz reports President Obama will be visiting the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem during his visit to Israel and the West Bank in a few days. Four years ago…
Barack Obama’s 9/11 – OpEd
On September 11, when President Obama authorized a series of drone strikes over U.S. soil, only this much was clear: four passenger aircraft had been hijacked and were being piloted…
Netanyahu Threatens America – OpEd
“We have to stop [Iran's] nuclear enrichment program before it’s too late. And I have to tell you, from the bottom of my heart and with the clarity of my…
U.S. Policy On Syria Is Self-Defeating – OpEd
Rami G Khouri writes: Every time I visit the United States, I find without fail that the public’s awareness of the Middle East reflects a pattern that has two dimensions.…
How Languages Shape Our Understanding Of The World – OpEd
There are currently about 7,000 languages spoken around the world. It is estimated that by the end of this century as many as 90% of them will have become extinct.…
Israel Heading Toward Apartheid, Say Many Israelis – OpEd
The Washington Post‘s Jennifer Ruben quotes the Free Beacon, which quotes an email which says that in a speech delivered at Rutgers University in 2010, Chuck Hagel “basically said that…
Cultural Hubris Built On Borrowed Thoughts – OpEd
Adam Etinson writes: In August of 1563, Michel de Montaigne, the famous French essayist, was introduced to three Brazilian cannibals who were visiting Rouen, France, at the invitation of King…
The Right To Remain Invisible And Assume Fictitious Identities – OpEd
When online communication first took shape, it often involved exchanges between individuals who had professional reasons to want to conceal their identities. Software engineers, who tend to be libertarian by…
Zygier, Treason, And The 2010 Mabhouh Assassination In Dubai – OpEd
A Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Jarida, reports today that according to Western sources, Ben Zygier aka ‘Prisoner X’ (who is claimed to have committed suicide in a high security Israeli prisoner in…
Ben Zygier (Prisoner X) Was Under Investigation By Australian Intelligence Agency For Possible Involvement In Mabhouh Assassination – OpEd
As Australia’s ABC News revealed in a Foreign Correspondent report, a prisoner being held in absolute secrecy in Israel’s Ayalon Prison — he was dubbed ‘Prisoner X’ — was a…
Solar Radiation Management: A Cheap, Easy Fix For Climate Change That Could Wreck Planet – OpEd
Climate change has resulted from unplanned geoengineering — for most of the last two centuries, we have been pumping vast quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere without pausing to…
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