Wednesday Afternoon News Roundup
John Brennan, President Obama’s terrorism advisor, said something really stupid about no collateral damage from predator drones. For some reason, Glenn Greenwald has taken him seriously. Anything that...
View ArticleThe Errington Thompson Show 5-17-08
This is the Errington Thompson Show. I interviewed the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald who has been in the news after revealing that the NSA was listening in (or is that databasing?) all of our calls back...
View ArticleNSA clarification
I have written that we really didn’t know what was going on at the NSA. Well, this week we got some clarification. From Kevin Drum: Today, in the latest release of classified NSA documents from Glenn...
View ArticleBlog Changes
My old theme was killing me. I don’t know why, but I just didn’t like it. I’m hoping that I like this theme a little better. If you have some ideas on how you would want the blog to look please let me...
View ArticleOur schizophrenic attitude toward war
It wa just a couple of years ago that we were still stinging from starting the never-ending Iraq war. We didn’t want to invade anybody. We didn’t want to bomb anybody. We wanted to get out. That...
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