Fred Branfman, a writer and longtime activist, discusses his article “Obama’s Secret Wars: How Our Shady Counter-Terrorism Policies Are More Dangerous Than Terrorism” at AlterNet; the “industrial-sized” US killing machine, purportedly used to win the war on terrorism, that strikes with impunity the world over; how drone strikes and assassinations create new enemies far faster than “terrorists” are killed, with the added bonus of destabilizing allied governments; the lack of a cohesive US...

Fred Branfman, writer for Alternet.org, discusses how the WikiLeaks documents reveal, more than anything else, the 'vast lying machine' of our government and military; why the Cablegate disclosures alone are enough to justify a new Nuremberg-style war crimes tribunal; how US military escalations in Afghanistan and Pakistan are counterproductive when considering (Ret.) Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s 'insurgent math;' and why the US government — not WikiLeaks — is a danger to national security and...

Fred Branfman, author of the Alternet article 'Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America’s Military Strategy in the Muslim World,' discusses several common-sense reasons 'why they hate us' (it isn’t our freedom), how the 'McChrystal ratio' exposes the bankruptcy of COIN strategy, the incredibly broad scope — both in number of forces employed and geographic space — of U.S. assassination policy, why (unlike CIA ops) these killings don’t require Presidential approval or reports to Congress,...

Fred Branfman, author of the article '5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced ”” Think That Bothers War Boosters Like Christopher Hitchens?' discusses the demonstrably false assertion that Iraqis are 'better off' now than under Saddam Hussein, why liberal warhawks like Hitchens bear a moral burden for Iraqi civilian deaths, the ongoing class war in America (that the billionaires are winning) and why holding elections does not qualify Iraq as a democracy.