Ever wonder why Pakistanis fear the US more than they fear the Taliban? In this appearance on GRITtv, Jeremy Scahill provides some good reasons why they might, and why you should too: Beginning almost immediately after September 11th, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld essential segregated JSOC (about JSOC) from the rest [...]
According to airport security goons, denouncing figures of authority is no longer a protected right. At least not in a reliable way. For instance, merely writing that Transportation Security Administration secretary Kip Hawley is an idiot on your state-prescribed zip-top liquids baggie–true as it may be–may provide authorities with the reasonable cause to detain you. [...]
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, hate groups have been infiltrating the US military. But isn’t this splitting hairs? I mean, I’m sure that not every bright-eyed, camo-wearing jingo enlisted specifically to rape the poor–no one can deny that the job has its perks. But it doesn’t require much of an imagination to realize [...]