Month: June 2007

With the announcement that the CIA is declassifying their Family Jewels, it is time to answer a few questions. What are the CIA’s Family Jewels and how did they come into existence? What does it mean for today? On February...

I believe that the American military is on target when officers ask for a mission that includes maintaining — either at bases in Iraq at the request of Iraq or in bases in Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — a military...

I’m very, very excited to learn that the CIA is declassifying their family jewels. They’re being hosted at the National Security Archives. The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing...

Why is it only “our side” that seems to receive such vitriol, and violence. Now mind you, I don’t mean for us to do the same, or that we are free from blame. It is more a reflection of  “them”,...

This article by Patrick O’Connor, which appeared in The Electronic Intifada on 2 May 2007, passed by without much notice, but its importance to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and all of its complications...