The ‘Broader’ Questions About the Secret War in Yemen
“CIA Sees Increased Threat in Yemen” is the Washington Post‘s headline today (8/25/10) over astory thattells of a”sober new assessment” of Al Qaeda-related activities that has “helped prompt senior...
View ArticleWhat WaPo Won’t Tell You About CIA’s Yemen Drone Base
In a piece today, the Washington Post’s Greg Miller reports on a CIA base that will be used to conduct drone strikes in Yemen: The agency is building a desert airstrip so that it can begin flying...
View ArticleWhy Is It Hard to Believe President Obama Would Want a Journalist in Prison?
Abdulelah Haider Shaye (Index on Censorship) Jeremy Scahill’s piece at the Nation website (“Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?,” 3/13/12) about imprisoned Yemeni...
View ArticleSome Cluster Bombs More Newsworthy Than Others
photo from Amnesty International. Most people would probably agree that cluster bombs are hideous weapons–deadly, indiscriminate, and likely to kill or injure civilians. So it was no surprise to see...
View ArticleIranian Meddling in Yemen, Says Unnamed Official From Meddling Country
Reuters is reporting (1/28/13) that a shipment of weapons bound for Yemen was seized on January 23, bound for anti-government insurgents. Who sent the “large cache of weapons” isn’t known, but the...
View ArticleAn ‘Informal Arrangement’ to Not Report the News
Today the Washington Post (2/6/13) reported some news that it’s known for years, but had decided not tell us until now: The CIA has a drone base in Saudi Arabia. Their rationale for withholding this...
View ArticleKilling a Citizen: NYT, Awlaki and ‘Muddying the Moral Clarity’
Anwar Al-Awlaki, the first U.S. citizen to be killed as a war enemy since the Civil War. (Al-Malahem Media/screenshot: Magharebia) The Obama administration has not wanted to explain in any great...
View ArticleDrone Strike Testimony: Not News?
Screen shot: Raw Story Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee held an unusual–and at times quite critical–public hearing about the U.S. drone program. The most noteworthy testimony came from Farea...
View ArticleGuantanamo Prisoners as ‘Reengaged’ Terrorists
The Washington Post has a long front page story (5/3/13) about thee prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, and the renewed debate over what the U.S. government can do to free those who it cannot...
View ArticleStill Getting Gitmo Wrong
Guantanamo (Joshua Nistas/US Army) President Barack Obama’s address yesterday on U.S. terror strategies got a lot of attention for supposedly charting a new course in America’s longest war. But some...
View ArticleWho Dies in Yemen Drone Strikes?
A headline is sometimes worth a thousand words, and this was definitely the case after a deadly drone strike occurred in Yemen last week. “Drone Strike Kills Six Suspected Militants in Yemen,” a...
View ArticleiPads, Flying Pets and Other Things More Newsworthy Than Deadly Drone Strikes
People who watch the evening newscasts regularly often note that the shows follow the lead of the New York Times in selecting news stories. If a story is on the front page of the Newspaper of Record,...
View ArticleThe Official Story: How NY Times Covers Yemen Drone Strikes
News that a US drone strike hit a wedding convoy in Yemen has been getting a lot of international press attention, mostly due to the fact that over a dozen people were reportedly killed. But the New...
View ArticleA Wedding Was Bombed–Don’t Worry, It Was by the US, Not in the US
Last Friday, it was reported that what seemed to be a US drone strike hit a wedding convoy in Yemen, killing over a dozen people. It got attention from outlets like the New York Times (FAIR Blog,...
View ArticleIn Yemen, Drones Don’t Kill Innocents
When US military strikes kill civilians, it seems there’s always someone ready to claim that US weaponry doesn’t kill anyone who doesn’t deserve it. Over the weekend, there were reports that...
View ArticleOur New War Will Be Different Because…
Tom Tomorrow’s Droney clarifies the situation (Daily Kos, 10/1/12). In a report about the Obama administration’s new strategy for a three-year campaign to defeat the Islamic State (9/7/14), the New...
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