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New Report Details How Israeli Soldiers Killed Civilians in Gaza: “There Were No Rules”
William Booth – The Washington Post,
11 May 2015
On Monday [4 May 2015], an organization of Israeli soldiers known as “Breaking the Silence” released a report containing testimonies from more than 60 officers and soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces who served during the 50-day war against Hamas militants last summer in the Gaza Strip.
→ read full articleHow Western Media Would Cover Baltimore if It Happened Elsewhere
Karen Attiah – The Washington Post,
4 May 2015
Apr 30, 2015 – If what is happening in Baltimore happened in a foreign country, here is how Western media would cover it:
→ read full articleStephen Hawking Says That ‘Aggression,’ Humanity’s Greatest Vice, Will Destroy Civilization
Abby Phillip – The Washington Post,
27 Apr 2015
Hawking was asked what he believed was humanity’s greatest shortcoming. He said, “The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.”
→ read full articleIsrael’s Threat from Within
Fareed Zakaria – The Washington Post,
23 Mar 2015
Khamenei understands that Israel can deter and respond to military threats. But it cannot, as a democracy, unendingly keep control of territories with 4.5 million people against their will. This is why he has chosen as his weapon the persistent call for a referendum. I would hope that Netanyahu takes this threat to Israel’s existence seriously and has some answer to it, beyond a retweet.
→ read full articleThe Untold Story of How the Sugar Industry Shaped Key Government Research about Your Teeth
Roberto A. Ferdman – The Washington Post,
16 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – Decades-old documents have surfaced showing that the powerful U.S. sugar industry skewed the government’s medical research on dental care. More recently, the industry attempted to influence changes to the nutrition facts label, for the inclusion of “added sugar,” to communicate how much sugar was added during processing. The industry is vehemently opposed.
→ read full articleExposing Infants to Peanuts Causes Big Reduction in Peanut Allergy, Study Shows
Lenny Bernstein – The Washington Post,
2 Mar 2015
Peanut allergy, an occasionally life-threatening condition that has prompted changes in food consumption rules everywhere from pre-schools to airlines, can be sharply reduced by feeding peanut protein to children at risk for the condition beginning when they are infants, researchers reported in a landmark study Monday [23 Feb 2015].
→ read full articleSecrecy around Police Surveillance Equipment Proves a Case’s Undoing
Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
23 Feb 2015
An FBI-imposed gag order about the StingRay, a sophisticated surveillance device that mimics cell towers, endangers some criminal cases when its use is questioned by defendants or judges.
→ read full articleObama Administration to Allow Sales of Armed Drones to Allies
Missy Ryan – The Washington Post,
23 Feb 2015
This is a disastrous decision for human rights and arms control,’ says William Hartung of Center for International Policy. The new policy, announced Tuesday [17 Feb 2015] after a long internal review, is a significant step for U.S. arms policy.
→ read full articleIs the India Nuclear Agreement Really the ‘Breakthrough’ Obama Promised?
Annie Gowen and Steven Mufson – The Washington Post,
9 Feb 2015
The key issue will be whether the conflict between international and Indian law can be waved away by a memorandum from India’s attorney general. The memorandum would have to say that the 2010 liability law “doesn’t mean what it says.”
→ read full articlePentagon Agency Wants Drones to Hunt in Packs, like Wolves
Dan Lamothe – The Washington Post,
26 Jan 2015
“Just as wolves hunt in coordinated packs with minimal communication, multiple CODE-enabled unmanned aircraft would collaborate to find, track, identify and engage targets, all under the command of a single human mission supervisor.”
→ read full articleHow Saudi Arabia’s Harsh Legal Punishments Compare to the Islamic State’s
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
26 Jan 2015
Documents Show Saudi Arabia and ISIS Administer Nearly Identical Punishments for Crimes
→ read full articleIn France, Prisons Filled with Muslims
Molly Moore – The Washington Post,
19 Jan 2015
About 60 to 70 percent of all inmates in the country’s prison system are Muslim, according to Muslim leaders, sociologists and researchers, though Muslims make up only about 12 percent of the country’s population.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Has More Jails Than Colleges – Here’s a Map of Where Those Prisoners Live
Christopher Ingraham – The Washington Post,
12 Jan 2015
To put these figures in context, we have slightly more jails and prisons in the U.S. — 5,000 plus — than we do degree-granting colleges and universities. In many parts of America, particularly the South, there are more people living in prisons than on college campuses.
→ read full articleThe New U.S. Congress Is 80 Percent White, 80 Percent Male and 92 Percent Christian
Philip Bump – The Washington Post,
12 Jan 2015
Trying to predict the gender and race of a member of Congress is like trying to predict who would win in an arithmetic competition between you and a talking horse. Which is to say: It is like trying to guess how many jellybeans are in a glass jar that contains two jellybeans. Which is to say: It is easy.
→ read full article‘Learned Helplessness’: The Chilling Psychological Concept behind the CIA’s Interrogation Methods
Terrence McCoy – The Washington Post,
15 Dec 2014
[The qualification ‘torture’ is not used one single time in this piece. –TMS editor] The concept: “exposing organisms to aversive events which they cannot control,” according to a later paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology co-authored by Martin E. Seligman. Learned helplessness occurs when a subject is so broken he will not even attempt escape if the opportunity presents itself.
→ read full articleAfter 13 Years, 2 Wars and Trillions in Military Spending, Terrorist Attacks Are Rising Sharply
Christopher Ingraham – The Washington Post,
24 Nov 2014
Worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents increased from less than 1,500 in 2000 to nearly 10,000 in 2013.
→ read full articleMap: The Countries That Recognize Palestine as a State
Ishaan Tharoor – The Washington Post,
17 Nov 2014
7 Nov 2014 – Last week, Sweden became the 135th member of the United Nations to officially recognize Palestine as an independent state. The act sparked a tetchy diplomatic incident with Israel.
→ read full articleKorean Artist in Japan Hopes to Help a New Generation Embrace Peace
Anna Fifield – The Washington Post,
20 Oct 2014
In a part of the world where Japan’s wartime wrongs remain contentious 70 years on, and political leaders seem unable or unwilling to do much about it, a group of young people from across the region is giving art a chance. The Peace Mask East Asia project stands out at a time when it is politically advantageous in the region to pick fights rather than try to resolve them.
→ read full articleIn the Medical Response to Ebola, Cuba Is Punching Far Above Its Weight
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
13 Oct 2014
While the international community has been accused of dragging its feet on the Ebola crisis, Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that still enjoys a fraught relationship with the United States, has emerged as a crucial provider of medical expertise in the West African nations hit by Ebola.
→ read full articleLet’s Be Honest, Islam Has a Problem Right Now
Fareed Zakaria – The Washington Post,
13 Oct 2014
The central problem with [Bill] Maher’s and [Sam] Harris’s analyses are that they take a reality — extremism in Islam — and suggest it is inherent in Islam. I learned in graduate school that you can never explain a variable phenomenon with a fixed cause. So, if you are asserting that Islam is inherently violent and intolerant then, since Islam has been around for 14 centuries, we should have seen 14 centuries of this behavior.
→ read full articleThis Is a Complete List of Wall Street CEOs Prosecuted for Their Role in the Financial Crisis
Neil Irwin – The Washington Post,
29 Sep 2014
So, yeah. Zero Wall Street CEOs are in jail. But we did promise you a list:
→ read full articleI understand why Westerners are joining jihadi movements like ISIS. I was almost one of them.
Michael Muhammad Knight – The Washington Post,
15 Sep 2014
We are raised to love violence and view military conquest as a benevolent act. The American kid who wants to intervene in another nation’s civil war owes his worldview as much to American exceptionalism as to jihadist interpretations of scripture. I grew up in a country that glorifies military sacrifice and feels entitled to rebuild other societies according to its own vision. Before I even knew what a Muslim was, let alone concepts such as “jihad” or an “Islamic state,” my American life had taught me that that’s what brave men do.
→ read full articleAt Least 81 Nationalities [of Terrorists] Are Fighting in [against] Syria
Ishaan Tharoor – The Washington Post,
1 Sep 2014
On Thursday [28 Aug 2014], the White House identified nearly a dozen Americans who joined the conflict in Syria. A British national is suspected to have beheaded American journalist James Foley, while a pair of Australians post selfies of themselves on social media grinning while clutching the severed heads of Assad soldiers.
→ read full articleU.S. Firm Helped the Spyware Industry Build a Potent Digital Weapon for Sale Overseas
Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
18 Aug 2014
His contact turned out to be a former developer of computer security tools who had long since turned to the darkest side of their profession, built and sold systems to break into computers, seize control clandestinely, and then copy files, listen to Skype calls, record every keystroke and switch on Web cameras and microphones at will; a shadowy world of lucrative spyware tools for sale to foreign security services with records of human rights abuse.
→ read full articleNSA-Intercepted Data of Innocent Bystanders Far Outnumber Targeted Names
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
14 Jul 2014
Files provided by Snowden show extent to which ordinary Web users are caught in the net.
→ read full articleCourt Gave NSA Broad Leeway in Surveillance, Documents Show
Ellen Nakashima and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
7 Jul 2014
Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorized to intercept information “concerning” all but four [anglo] countries, according to top-secret documents: Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
→ read full articleU.S. Officials Scrambled to Nab Snowden, Hoping He Would Take a Wrong Step. He Didn’t.
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
30 Jun 2014
For weeks, senior officials from the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and other agencies assembled nearly every day in a desperate search for a way to apprehend the former intelligence contractor who had exposed the inner workings of American espionage then fled to Hong Kong before ending up in Moscow.
→ read full articleMAP: The U.S. Military Currently Has Troops in These African Countries
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post,
26 May 2014
This map shows what sub-Saharan nations currently have a U.S. military presence engaged in actual military operations. More details of the troops deployed are below.
→ read full articleHow Thailand Is Contributing to the Misery of Burma’s Persecuted Rohingya
Editorial Board – The Washington Post,
19 May 2014
This is a sad case of Thailand’s navy attempting to extinguish reporting rather than the misery that the reporting exposed. It is wrong to punish the journalists. But this misguided attempt at coercion is doubly wrong because it attempts to hide the shameful treatment of a people, the Rohingya, who are already suffering far too much.
→ read full articleIn The Long Run, Wars Make Us Safer and Richer
Ian Morris – The Washington Post,
5 May 2014
Since 1914, we have endured world wars, genocides and government-sponsored famines, not to mention civil strife, riots and murders. Altogether, we have killed a staggering 100 million to 200 million of our own kind. But over the century, about 10 billion lives were lived — which means that just 1 to 2 percent of the world’s population died violently.
→ read full articleGermany Opens Hearings on U.S. Spying
Anthony Faiola – The Washington Post,
8 Apr 2014
A chapter in trans¬atlantic relations that Washington would sooner forget got a new lease on life Thursday [3 Apr 2014] as German lawmakers opened their first parliamentary hearings into the Edward Snowden scandal. A number of lawmakers here are demanding safe passage to Berlin for Snowden.
→ read full articleWhy Did GM Take So Long to Respond to Deadly Defect? Corporate Culture May Hold Answer
Michael A. Fletcher and Steven Mufson – The Washington Post,
7 Apr 2014
It’s relatively cheap and easy to replace the flawed ignition switch that has been blamed for at least 13 deaths, including a fatal June 2013 crash in Quebec newly linked to the defect. Yet General Motors waited more than a decade before recalling 2.6 million Chevrolet Cobalts and other small cars.
→ read full articleSnowden’s Leaked NSA Trove Yields Its Secrets Only Slowly
Paul Farhi – The Washington Post,
24 Mar 2014
Why, given that Snowden’s leak occurred about 10 months ago, are revelations still emerging? The short answer, according to the journalists behind the articles, is that the documents don’t give up the NSA’s secrets clearly or cleanly.
→ read full articleNSA Surveillance Program Reaches ‘Into the Past’ to Retrieve, Replay Phone Calls
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
24 Mar 2014
The NSA has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleFDA Panel Debates Technique That Would Create Embryos with Three Genetic Parents
Ariana Eunjung Cha and Sandhya Somashekhar – The Washington Post,
3 Mar 2014
The provocative notion of genetically modified babies met the very real world of federal regulation Tuesday [25 Feb 2014], as a government advisory committee began debating a new technique that combines DNA from three people to create embryos free of certain inherited diseases.
→ read full articleSyria’s War Must End
Prof. Stephen Hawking – The Washington Post,
17 Feb 2014
Today, humans are developing ever faster. Our knowledge is growing exponentially and with it, our technology. But humans still have the instincts, and in particular the aggressive impulses, that we had in caveman days.
→ read full articleNew Surveillance Technology Can Track Everyone in an Area for Several Hours at a Time
Craig Timberg – The Washington Post,
10 Feb 2014
A surveillance system designed by a Dayton, Ohio-based company can track crimes in real time, as they occur.
→ read full articleJordan Valley Settlements Hit by Boycott Campaign
Associated Press – The Washington Post,
13 Jan 2014
10 Jan 2014 – An international campaign to boycott Israeli settlement products has rapidly turned from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality for Israeli farmers in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley.
→ read full articleHow Much Has the United States Been ‘Standing Up Against’ Atrocities in Burma?
Glenn Kessler – The Washington Post,
6 Jan 2014
One key question is whether the rush to lift sanctions robbed the United States of leverage to prod the government to open even further and to curtail human rights abuses, such as brutal attacks on Muslims and continuing ethnic conflicts.
→ read full articleNSA Seeks to Build Quantum Computer That Could Crack Most Types of Encryption
Steven Rich and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
6 Jan 2014
The US National Security Agency is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world, according to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleConfused About the NSA’s Quantum Computing Project? This MIT Computer Scientist Can Explain.
Timothy B. Lee – The Washington Post,
6 Jan 2014
To understand how quantum computers could work and what the implications would be if they did, I talked to Scott Aaronson, a Computer Science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has written extensively about quantum computation and its implications.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden, after Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished
Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
30 Dec 2013
24 Dec 2013 – “For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” he said. “I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
→ read full articleTime to Be Bold and Make Peace in Syria
Jimmy Carter and Robert A. Pastor – The Washington Post,
30 Dec 2013
23 Dec 2013 – We would need Russia and the United States to agree to this approach, Iran and other regional powers to stop supporting their proxies and the United Nations to elevate this issue to a top priority. It is time to change the agenda, the preconditions and the strategy on Syria — and end the war.
→ read full articleNew Documents Show How the NSA Infers Relationships Based on Mobile Location Data
Ashkan Soltani and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
16 Dec 2013
Everyone who carries a cellphone generates a trail of electronic breadcrumbs that reveal a wealth of information about who we are, where we live, who our friends are and much more. The NSA is collecting location information in bulk — 5 billion records per day worldwide — and using sophisticated algorithms to assist with U.S. intelligence-gathering operations.
→ read full articleNSA Uses Google Cookies to Pinpoint Targets for Hacking
Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
16 Dec 2013
The agency’s internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government. The slides also suggest that the agency is using these tracking techniques to help identify targets for offensive hacking operations.
→ read full articleNSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide, Snowden Documents Show
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
9 Dec 2013
Dec. 4, 2013 – The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.
→ read full articleLeakers, Privacy Activists Find New Home in Berlin
Michael Birnbaum – The Washington Post,
2 Dec 2013
During the Cold War, Berlin was one of the most spy-ridden cities in the world. An international cadre of privacy advocates is settling in Germany’s once-divided capital, saying they feel safer here than they do in the United States or Britain, where authorities have vowed to prosecute leakers of official secrets.
→ read full articleBrazil and Germany Introduce UN Resolution to Protect Internet Privacy from Eavesdroppers
Associated Press – The Washington Post,
11 Nov 2013
Brazil and Germany formally presented a resolution to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday [7 Nov 2013] urging all countries to extend internationally guaranteed rights to privacy to the Internet and other electronic communications.
→ read full articleNSA Infiltrates Links to Yahoo, Google Data Centers Worldwide, Snowden Documents Say
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
4 Nov 2013
30 Oct 2013 – The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.
→ read full articleHow the NSA Is Infiltrating Private Networks
Barton Gellman, Todd Lindeman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
4 Nov 2013
This graphic shows how the NSA and GCHQ break into those internal networks, using Google’s as an example. Less is known about Yahoo’s networks, but the NSA operations are thought to be similar.
→ read full articleJPMorgan Negotiating Multi-Billion-Dollar Settlement with Justice Department
Danielle Douglas and Sari Horwitz – The Washington Post,
30 Sep 2013
A number of JPMorgan Chase’s legal battles may be coming to an end as the bank negotiates a multibillion-dollar settlement with the Justice Department to cover a wide range of pending investigations, a person familiar with the talks said late Tuesday [24 Sep 2013].
→ read full articleU.S. Weapons Reaching Syrian Rebels
Ernesto Londoño and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
16 Sep 2013
12 Sep 2013 – The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war.
→ read full articleU.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures and Objectives Detailed in ‘Black Budget’ Summary
Barton Gellman and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget.
→ read full articleBlack Budget: Funding the Intelligence Program
The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
U.S. intelligence community’s classified “black budget” for fiscal year 2013.
→ read full articleU.S. Military Drone Surveillance Is Expanding to Hot Spots beyond Declared Combat Zones
Craig Whitlock – The Washington Post,
22 Jul 2013
The U.S. military is shifting its huge fleet of unmanned aircraft to other hot spots around the world. This next phase of drone warfare is focused more on spying than killing and will extend the Pentagon’s robust surveillance networks far beyond traditional, declared combat zones.
→ read full articleFirefox Web Browser to Move Ahead Plan to Block Tracking
Craig Timberg – The Washington Post,
24 Jun 2013
The maker of the popular Firefox browser is moving ahead with plans to block the most common forms of Internet tracking, allowing hundreds of millions of users to eventually limit who watches their movements across the Web, company officials said Wednesday [19 June 2013].
→ read full articleMap: This Is How Far Those North Korean Missiles Can Actually Reach
Max Fisher – The Washington Post,
8 Apr 2013
It includes Japan and South Korea but not Guam or Hawaii and certainly not the U.S. mainland. The most bullish analysis of the KN-08′s potential threat that I’ve seen this week, published in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, speculated that North Korea had only moved them to the coast so that, in the event of a test launch, they would be less likely to fall onto North Korean own soil.
→ read full articleThe Corporate ‘Predator State’
Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Washington Post,
1 Apr 2013
Bipartisan agreement in Washington usually means citizens should hold on to their wallets or get ready for another threat to peace. Economist James Galbraith calls this the “predator state,” one in which large corporate interests rig the rules to protect their subsidies, tax dodges and monopolies. This isn’t the free market; it’s a rigged market.
→ read full articleU.S. Plans to Add Drone Base in West Africa
Craig Whitlock – The Washington Post,
4 Feb 2013
29 Jan 2013 – The U.S. military is planning a new drone base in Africa that would expand its surveillance in northern Mali, a development that would escalate American involvement in a fast-spreading conflict. Two Obama administration officials said military planners are eyeing the West African country of Niger as a base for unarmed Predator drones, which would greatly boost U.S. spy missions in the region.
→ read full articleSwitzerland’s UBS Becomes Second Bank to Settle LIBOR Rate-Rigging Probe
AP-The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Swiss bank UBS agreed Wednesday [19 Dec 2012] to pay $1.5 billion in fines for trying to manipulate a key interest rate that affects borrowers around the world.
→ read full articleAs Drug Industry’s Influence over Research Grows, So Does the Potential for Bias
Peter Whoriskey – The Washington Post,
3 Dec 2012
For drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, the 17-page article in the New England Journal of Medicine represented a coup. The 2006 report described a trial that compared three diabetes drugs and concluded that Avandia, the company’s new drug, performed best. A Food and Drug Administration scientist estimated, four years later, that the drug had been associated with 83,000 heart attacks and deaths.
→ read full articleDIA Sending Hundreds More Spies Overseas
Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
3 Dec 2012
The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size. The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been dominated for the past decade by the demands of two wars, into a spy service focused on emerging threats and more closely aligned with the CIA and elite military commando units.
→ read full articleFrance’s Hollande Calls for Mali Intervention, Clinton Says Nation Can’t Fight Islamists Alone
Associated Press – The Washington Post,
1 Oct 2012
French President Francois Hollande called Wednesday [26 Sep 2012] for the Security Council to approve African military intervention in Mali “as quickly as possible.” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Mali’s security forces need help, and said African-led interventions in Somalia and the Ivory Coast were successful. Clinton said Mali’s “chaos and violence” threatens the entire region’s stability.
→ read full articleWhat about Israel’s Nuclear Weapons?
Patrick B. Pexton, Ombudsman – The Washington Post,
3 Sep 2012
Readers periodically ask me some variation on this question: “Why does the press follow every jot and title of Iran’s nuclear program, but we never see any stories about Israel’s nuclear weapons capability?” I spoke with several experts in the nuclear and nonproliferation fields, and they say that the lack of reporting on Israel’s nuclear weapons is real — and frustrating. There are some obvious reasons for this, and others that are not so obvious.
→ read full articleTime for ‘Banksters’ To Be Prosecuted
Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Washington Post,
16 Jul 2012
Fixing the rate even a few hundreds of a percentage point could make Barclays millions on any single day – money taken out of the pockets of consumers and investors. Once more the banks were rigging the rules; once more their customers were their mark.
→ read full articleIsrael Criticizes Palestinians’ Invitation to Security Council to Visit Occupied Territories
Associated Press – The Washington Post,
5 Mar 2012
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. observer, told reporters after a council meeting on the Mideast on Tuesday [28 Feb 2012] that he sent a letter inviting the 15 council members “to see with their own eyes the reality of the Palestinian people in the occupied territory” including Israel’s “illegal” settlement building.
→ read full article(Castellano) Tensión Creciente Entre Capitalismo y Democracia
Harold Meyerson – The Washington Post,
12 Dec 2011
¿Está reñido el capitalismo con la democracia? ¿Se debilitan el uno a la otra?
→ read full articleU.S. Assembling Secret Drone Bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Officials Say
Craig Whitlock and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
26 Sep 2011
The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said.
→ read full articleSupport the Palestinian Unity Government
Jimmy Carter – The Washington Post,
9 May 2011
This is a decisive moment. Under the auspices of the Egyptian government, Palestine’s two major political movements — Fatah and Hamas — are signing a reconciliation agreement on Wednesday [4 May 2011] that will permit both to contest elections for the presidency and legislature within a year. If the United States and the international community support this effort, they can help Palestinian democracy and establish the basis for a unified Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza that can make a secure peace with Israel.
→ read full articleU.N. Diplomat Is Denied Private Meeting with WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning
Ellen Nakashima – The Washington Post,
18 Apr 2011
A United Nations diplomat charged with investigating claims of torture said Monday [11 Apr 2011] that he is “deeply disappointed and frustrated” that U.S. defense officials have refused his request for an unmonitored visit with Pfc. Bradley Manning… Juan E. Mendez, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, said his request for a private interview with Manning was denied by the Defense Department on Friday. Instead, he has been told that any visit must be supervised.
→ read full articleIn the Mideast, U.S. Policy Is Still Driven by Realism
Eugene Robinson – The Washington Post,
28 Mar 2011
Gadhafi is crazy and evil; obviously, he wasn’t going to listen to our advice about democracy. The world would be fortunate to be rid of him. But war in Libya is justifiable only if we are going to hold compliant dictators to the same standard we set for defiant ones. If not, then please spare us all the homilies about universal rights and freedoms. We’ll know this isn’t about justice, it’s about power.
→ read full articleJapan’s Nuclear Crisis Might Not Be the Last
Eugene Robinson – The Washington Post,
21 Mar 2011
Nuclear power was beginning to look like a panacea—a way to lessen our dependence on oil, make our energy supply more self-sufficient and significantly mitigate global warming, all at the same time. Now it looks more like a bargain with the devil.
→ read full articleStoking Irrational Fears about Islam – Inquisition American Style?
Eugene Robinson – The Washington Post,
14 Mar 2011
Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is about to convene hearings whose premise offends our nation’s founding ideals and whose targets are law-abiding members of a religious minority. King has decided to investigate Islam.
→ read full articleAt Al-Jazeera, we saw the Arab revolutions coming. Why didn’t the West?
Wadah Khanfar – The Washington Post,
7 Mar 2011
These unfolding transformations have been less of a surprise for us at al-Jazeera. Since our launch nearly 15 years ago, we have chosen to keep close to the Arab street, gauging its pulse and reflecting its aspirations. It was clear to us that a revolution was in the making, and it was happening far from the gaze of a tame and superficial establishment media that allied itself with the powerful center – on the assumption that the center is always safer and more important. Many media outlets in the region failed to recognize what was happening among the Arab grass roots. Keen to conduct interviews with high-level officials and ever willing to cover repetitious news conferences, they remained oblivious to what was happening on the ground.
→ read full articleWith Air Force’s New Drone, ‘We Can See Everything’
Ellen Nakashima and Craig Whitlock – The Washington Post,
3 Jan 2011
The hunger for these high-tech tools was evident at the conference, where officials told several thousand industry and intelligence officials they had to move “at the speed of war.” Cartwright pressed for solutions, even partial ones, in a year or less.
→ read full articleTop Secret America: A Washington Post Investigation (PART 1)
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin - The Washington Post,
2 Aug 2010
A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control. The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
→ read full articleTop Secret America: A Washington Post Investigation (PART 2)
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin - The Washington Post,
2 Aug 2010
National Security Inc. -To ensure that the country’s most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation’s interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called “inherently government functions.” But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post.
→ read full articleTop Secret America: A Washington Post Investigation (PART 3)
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin -The Washington Post,
2 Aug 2010
The Secrets Next Door. In suburbs across the nation, the intelligence community goes about its anonymous business. Its work isn’t seen, but its impact is surely felt.
→ read full articleAnalysts Question Korea Torpedo Incident
Jeff Stein – The Washington Post,
31 May 2010
How is it that a submarine of a fifth-rate power was able to penetrate a U.S.-South Korean naval exercise and sink a ship that was designed for anti-submarine warfare?
→ read full articlePEACEFUL PROTESTS IN KASHMIR ALTER EQUATION FOR INDIA
Emily Wax - The Washington Post,
16 Sep 2008
Tough Response Criticized as Outmoded Read more
→ read full articleIN ISRAEL, A CLASH OVER WHO IS A JEW
Griff Witte, The Washington Post,
16 Sep 2008
Ultra-Orthodox Contest ConversionsRead more
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