Author: Colman

We were wondering how long this would take. From the Guardian: The west’s confrontation with Iran over its nuclear activities intensified yesterday after Britain claimed that Tehran could acquire the technological...

Written for EuroTrib originally, but a little relevant here as well. Ironically, I’ve been reluctant to write this story for fear of the consequences: I don’t really want to open up a divisive debate again. However,...

Good overview of what they are up to. The NSA is not only the world’s largest spy agency (far larger than the CIA, for example), but it possesses the most advanced technology for intercepting communications. We know it has...

Via a commentator on dKos, I came across this little house of horrors: The Henry Jackson Society is a non-profit organisation that seeks to promote the following principles: that liberal democracy should be spread across the...

Last night I drew attention to the commission spokeswoman who said of secret CIA prisions that “This is an issue between the US and any member states concerned”, and “this has nothing to do with the European...