LAST week, we learned that, only months into the job, the official in charge of the military courts system at Guantánamo Bay was stepping...   Read More

New reports show that a record number of drone pilots and operators are leaving their positions, despite the Obama administration ramping up drone warfare...   Read More

…It is commonly said that the US has taken its eye off Latin America in recent times, particularly since the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions....   Read More

In the video, Sami Osmakac is tall and gaunt, with jutting cheekbones and a scraggly beard. He sits cross-legged on the maroon carpet of...   Read More

The same Senator who warned the public about the NSA’s mass surveillance pre-Snowden said this week that the Obama administration is still keeping more...   Read More

Government subsidies create winners and losers. When Congress and a federal judge ordered the Export-Import Bank to study who loses as a result of...   Read More

The Drug Enforcement Administration, the top agency in the United States tasked with preventing drug use and sales, advised its agents to avoid enforcing...   Read More

[Many Washington politicians have said “if the U.S. government doesn’t sell arms to foreign governments, someone else will”. That idea] assumes that the U.S....   Read More

The first time we read the recent analysis by the Sunlight Foundation in which it combed through 14 million corporate records, including data on...   Read More

Investigative reporter James Gordon Meek broke an important story this week: He revealed that U.S.-backed forces in Iraq are committing the same type of...   Read More