Tracking Drone Strikes and Private Spies Tracking Drone Strikes and Private Spies
Two online databases provide a window into the world of private spooks and the undeclared US airwar in Pakistan.
May 13, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Pakistan’s Challenge Pakistan’s Challenge
America's Pakistan problem is getting worse, not better, on President Obama's watch.
May 13, 2010 / Mosharraf Zaidi
Glenn Beck, America’s Historian Laureate Glenn Beck, America’s Historian Laureate
The Tea Party’s guide to American exceptionalism: It is all about race.
May 13, 2010 / Greg Grandin
Obama Tries to Strongarm Karzai Obama Tries to Strongarm Karzai
The American policy in Afghanistan is not to negotiate a political deal, but to shoot first and ask questions later. Will President Karzai go along with that strategy? We'll k...
May 13, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Aiding the Insurgency Aiding the Insurgency
A celebrated US program designed to employ Iraqis is called a “sham” that fed the resistance.
May 12, 2010 / Feature / Luke Mogelson
Obama on Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan: “I Am Accountable” Obama on Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan: “I Am Accountable”
The president made the statement during a press conference with Hamid Karzai. But is it true?
May 12, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Did Kagan Discriminate Against the Military? No! Did Kagan Discriminate Against the Military? No!
Melissa Harris-Lacewell explains why Elena Kagan’s decision to deny military recruiters equal access to Harvard Law School was the right one.
May 12, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Kagan Discriminated Against the Military? Kagan Discriminated Against the Military?
Melissa Harris-Lacewell explains why Elena Kagan’s decision to deny military recruiters equal access to Harvard Law School was the right one.
May 12, 2010 / MSNBC
Pakistan’s Two Air Wars Pakistan’s Two Air Wars
US drones bomb Pakistan regularly. Now, Washington is about to deliver twenty F-16s and surveillance planes to Islamabad along with a thousand 500-pound bombs.
May 12, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Georgetown Professor: ‘Drones Are Not Killing Innocent Civilians’ in Pakistan Georgetown Professor: ‘Drones Are Not Killing Innocent Civilians’ in Pakistan
Christine Fair dismissed reports of civilians deaths as propaganda from Pakistani media sources.
May 10, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill