Syria Chemical Attack Debunked Some More

This time it's a report by a former UN inspector and an MIT professor as reported by Matthew Schofield in McClatchy. A series of revelations about the rocket believed to have delivered poison sarin gas to a Damascus suburb last summer are challenging American intelligence assumptions about that attack and suggest that the case U.S. officials initially made for retaliatory military action was flawed. A team of security and arms experts, meeting this week in Washington to discuss the matter,...

Santa Monica Airlines

Writes Bill: Hi Scott: Saw my first drones today... two of 'em... awesome, flying maybe 60 mph .... over Santa Monica.... brush fire in progress. Anyway, got me to thinking 'bout them Afghans, Yemenis etc

U.S. Continues to Stand by Bahrain

By Amanda Ufheil-Somers, FPIF Chuck Hagel's paeans to "political reform" in the Gulf must have sounded strange to political prisoners in repressive Bahrain, where he delivered his remarks. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was full of tough talk when he visited the island kingdom of Bahrain in early December. The United States, he vowed, will continue to guard 'the free flow of energy and commerce' from the Persian Gulf and keep Iran nuclear-free, through the presence of 35,000 U.S. military...

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Ariel Sharon is Finally Dead

Here's Max Blumenthal's obituary of the infamous child killer: A central player in Israeli affairs since the state’s inception, Ariel Sharon molded history according to his own stark vision. He won consent for his plans through ruthlessness and guile, and resorted to force when he could not find any. An accused war criminal who presided over the killing of thousands of civilians, his foes referred to him as 'The Bulldozer.' To those who revered him as a strong-armed protector and patron saint...