Author: BooMan

When the Intelligence Community releases before/after photos of some remote Syrian site that the Israelis bombed it doesn’t take long for a private company to release their own photos. The private company’s photos...

Have Britain and France switched places vis-a-vis their view of America? In Britain, conversely, America’s perceived failure as a colossus may have invited a new contempt: for an incompetent heir to Britain’s imperial legacy....

At the end of a large piece on the fate of the CIA’s ghost detainees, Craig Whitlock reports: Though Nasar would go on trial if he was brought back to Spain, that would be preferable to indefinite detention in a secret...

Emperor Justinian I (482-565 CE) has a decent reputation, largely flowing from his judicial reforms. Yet, after he died, his official historian wrote A Secret History that purported to tell the real history of Justinian’s...

What the president calls ‘kicking ass’ the soldiers call something else. “It’s just a slow, somewhat government-supported sectarian cleansing,” said Maj. Eric Timmerman, the battalion’s...