Symbolic Destruction: New Book Reveals Pressures In Disclosing Snowden Files

The Guardian’s organized computer destruction represents just one chapter of a governmental “freak-out,” in which the British government was unprepared for its secrets to come out.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Glenn Greenwald | Julian Assange

In the basement of the King’s Cross, London office of the Guardian, something unusual happened on July 20, 2013. Two Government Communications Headquarters technicians oversaw the Guardian’s editors and journalists use a drill, angle grinders and a degausser to destroy four laptop computers and obliterate all data stored on them. These computers

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The Nuclear War That Almost Was

What America’s current foreign policy-makers should learn from a week in 1983 when the Cold War nearly turned a thermonuclear hot.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Thirty years ago this week, the world almost ended. In what seems an alternative universe compared with the one we inhabit today, aging leaders in the Kremlin looked out their windows and saw the West preparing for war. In response, they ordered the Soviet Union’s conventional and strategic nuclear forces to go on alert and tasked the KGB with

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Experts Exhume Remains Of Palestinian Leader

Yasser Arafat’s political heirs on Tuesday opened his grave and foreign experts took samples of the iconic Palestinian leader’s remains as part of a long-shot attempt — eight years after his mysterious death — to determine whether he was poisoned. Arafat died in November 2004 at a French military hospital, a month after suddenly falling […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
A Palestinian walks past a huge portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City on Sunday, November 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Yasser Arafat's political heirs on Tuesday opened his grave and foreign experts took samples of the iconic Palestinian leader's remains as part of a long-shot attempt — eight years after his mysterious death — to determine whether he was poisoned. Arafat died in November 2004 at a French military hospital, a month after suddenly falling ill at

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Israel and Russia, New “Best Friends”

Two interpretations by the participants themselves, of what significant international meetings achieved, the first on 6/25/12 and the second five days later, remind us about subjectivity in the eyes of the beholders. Post-event statements, whether following last weekend’s Geneva meeting on Syria which produced markedly different interpretations of the final communiqué language by the Russian […]

Franklin Lamb
By Franklin Lamb
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Two interpretations by the participants themselves, of what significant international meetings achieved, the first on 6/25/12 and the second five days later, remind us about subjectivity in the eyes of the beholders. Post-event statements, whether following last weekend’s Geneva meeting on Syria which produced markedly different interpretations

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America Steps Up Russia-Bashing

(CHICAGO) – Russia is Washington’s main military rival. Each nation has powerful nuclear arsenals and delivery systems able to destroy the other. On December 31, 1999, Russia’s lost decade under Boris Yeltsin ended when Vladimir Putin replaced him. Yeltsin institutionalized “shock therapy.” Economic genocide followed and GDP plunged 50 percent, life expectancy fell, democratic freedoms died […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks during a meeting with the top military brass in Moscow on Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service)

(CHICAGO) - Russia is Washington's main military rival. Each nation has powerful nuclear arsenals and delivery systems able to destroy the other. On December 31, 1999, Russia's lost decade under Boris Yeltsin ended when Vladimir Putin replaced him. Yeltsin institutionalized "shock therapy." Economic genocide followed and GDP plunged 50

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Zbigniew Brzezinski: The man behind Obama’s foreign policy

(NEW YORK) MintPress — Zbigniew Brzezinski is not one to mince his words. When asked by journalist  Fareed Zakaria on CNN this weekend if he prefers President Obama to the alternative in the 2012  election,  the former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 was blunt in his response. “Oh, without a question, without […]

Lisa Barron
By Lisa Barron

(NEW YORK) MintPress — Zbigniew Brzezinski is not one to mince his words. When asked by journalist  Fareed Zakaria on CNN this weekend if he prefers President Obama to the alternative in the 2012  election,  the former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 was blunt in his response. “Oh, without a question,

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