By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) President Obama announced May 28 a major update of his foreign policy. But the mainstream media, as usual, failed to report context that would make the implications understandable to the general public. In the president’s commencement remarks at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he urged creation of a new […]

By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) CNN and Newsweek recently launched dubious tirades against what they called “conspiracy theories.” Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal published U.N. Considers Reopening Probe into 1961 Crash that Killed Dag Hammarskjöld, a report that broached the possibility that the United States may have been involved in the death of the secretary-general, who […]

By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner May 19 used his first Washington, DC public appearance following his resignation to defend his decision making and that of the rest of the Obama administration. Geithner, launching his memoir Stress Test, responded to a question from the DC-based magazine Politico on why he and his […]

By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) With the launch of a new book this week, Glenn Greenwald makes a compelling case against the vast surveillance that threatens core American freedoms. I saw Greenwald in action at a May 14 lecture in Washington, DC, read his No Place to Hide, and sampled his other interviews and critical commentaries. […]