Author Event: After Snowden
Join us for a reception with Ronald Goldfarb, celebrating the release of his new book on “Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age.”
Boehner Invites Netanyahu to U.S. Congress Without Consulting the White House
Phyllis Bennis joins Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word: “This goes beyond partisan politics — it is more urgently involved with the question of negotiations with Iran.”
How Will Obama’s Reconfigured National Security Team Approach the Middle East?
Watch for more “smart power.”
Hyping Threats Is a Smokescreen That Obscures the Real Threats
The problem with hyping national security threats is that it nudges greater threats such as global warming off the public’s radar screen.
New Economy Transformation: Obama Budget Won’t Help
The military spending cut is real for the first time, but only about one percent of the Pentagon’s total.
Maintaining Capability to Wage a Second War Asking for Trouble
Just like anything else, with national-security strategy nature abhors a vacuum.
Conn Hallinan’s 2011 “Are You Serious?” Awards
Highlighting foreign policy and defense stories that beggar credulity to the utmost.
A Missile in Every Pot
At last, we Americans are safe.
U.S. Government Brushes Aside Threat UFOs May Pose to National Security
Once again, the United States government reinforces its childlike denial of UFOs.
Obama’s Expanded Militarism
The new face of state violence is the drone moving silently through the slum.
100% Scared: How the National Security Complex Grows on Terrorism Fears
In only one area of life are Americans officially considered 100% scared, and so 100% in need of protection, and that’s when it comes to terrorism.
To Libya With God on Our Side
Opulent religious rhetoric is once again employed to justify absurd military actions.
Using Islamophobia as a Pretext for Withdrawing From Afghanistan
If the two cultures genuinely dislike each other, cooperation between the United States and the Middle East in stamping out terrorism is doomed.
Why Washington Clings to a Failed Middle-East Strategy
It’s time to scrap our failed client-regime national-security strategy.
In Today’s Open-Source World, Low-Tech Attacks by “Other Guys” Rule
Behold the lowly caltrop — it’s ROI is off the charts.