How did Professor Haigwood come to make the case against Ivins?  It appears that (like Jean Duley, Ivins’ trainee therapist who was under house arrest when she was brought by FBI to obtain a restraining order against Ivins, then was trotted out for all major media by the FBI before she went into hiding) Haigwood too received…

Why is the country practically bankrupt and mired in corruption? Can the parts of our economic culture that enable huge government giveaways be identified? We certainly don’t know about how most decisions are made at the federal level, nor do we have any idea how much money changes hands and how.  But there are some…

Seymour Hersh provides a very plausible deconstruction of how chemical weapons were used in an attempt to draw the United States into military engagement with Syria last year—by the Turkish government in cahoots with anti-Assad Syrian rebels. Hopefully you have heard about the leaked YouTube audiotape in which planning for a Syria false flag attack is…

Wondering which corporations feed at the anthrax biodefense rice bowl?  For a minimum of $995 (US) you can find out about where the anthrax money is being spent and who’s doing what. Yet the biggest feeder (Emergent BioSolutions) is missing from the list. So is Pharmathene, which was perhaps Emergent’s biggest competitor, and which just…

This is a very long piece, but it needs to be said and all the points are important.  The US’ record on Human Rights is pitiful, and our commitment to our international  obligations doubly so.  From Truthout: (Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t) While President Obama told the country to…

The Senate committee votes whether to declassify on April 3.  Give the committee members your opinion. Maine’s Senators Collins and King will vote to declassify.  Here is WaPo’s: AT THE heart of the dispute between the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency is a document known as the CIA’s internal review. This is…