Secretary of State John Kerry is in South Korea today in hopes of deescalating the crisis instigated by North Korea’s third nuclear weapons test. In response to the weapons test the United States along with others nations passed new sanctions on North Korea. North Korea responded with a number of threats ranging from restarting the [...]

As we mark the 10 year anniversary of the Iraq War one of the war’s most outspoken veterans is going on hospice care, soon to leave this world. But before Tomas Young exits he had one last letter to send to the men responsible for his condition and so much senseless pain. ——————- To: George [...]

Cross-Posted From Nation of Change The race is on, full-steam ahead for the United States shale gas industry [PDF] in its quest to pipe and export gas obtained via the hydraulic fracturing process to lucrative global markets. On April 16, Cheniere Energy Inc. became the first corporation in the United States to receive approval by the Federal Energy [...]

A Cross-Post from DeSmogBlog The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), as covered previously by DeSmogBlog, is the “Trojan Horse” behind mandating that climate change denial (“skepticism,” or “balance,” in its words) be taught in K-12 classrooms. Well, ALEC is at it again, it appears. Facing an IRS complaint filed by Common Cause, one of the leading advocacy groups working to [...]

Sith Lord Dick Cheney emerged from his homemade bunker today to criticize the Administration for not starting an air war over Iran to go along with the shadow war already in progress: CHENEY: The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it. You can [...]

I don’t think this signals much of anything, because Dick Cheney doesn’t have to vote for anything. But it’s notable that our nation’s most prominent errant shooter acknowledged to NBC that “maybe it’s appropriate” to limit high-capacity gun magazines in the wake of Tucson. I really hope this video of the shooting doesn’t get leaked, [...]

I can’t bring myself to read the W. memoir Decision Points but here’s what we know from leaks so far. • Bush thinks he was a “dissenting voice” on the Iraq War, which shows that he doesn’t know the meaning of the word dissent. He means he was reluctantly pulled into war, presumably what led [...]

Dick Cheney apparently expressed a deep abiding love for waterboarding on his appearance on ABC yesterday. This really shows how far we’ve come – or is that gone back? – as a nation in the post 9/11 era. There may have been politicians out there who loved torture back in the day, but they didn’t [...]

Don’t ask me why Dick Cheney is even still an actor on the national stage, but he did support the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell on ABC this morning. KARL: OK, “don’t ask/don’t tell” — you’re a former defense secretary — should this policy be repealed? CHENEY: Twenty years ago, the military were strong [...]

Last week, Newsweek reported that David Margolis, a career official at the Justice Department, softened an imminent Office of Professional Responsibility report about Bush “torture memo” lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee. Instead of sanctioning the two lawyers for their violating their professional obligations in writing legal opinions justifying torture, the report will now say, [...]

Greg Sargent gets a response from John Harris, editor of the Politico, on why his news organization serves as a stenographer for former Vice President Dick Cheney, printing his comments uncritically without any attempt at context. Allow me to put my Politico hat on by uncritically posting Harris’ response! 1. I thought the Cheney comments [...]