Some Americans have heard of New York Times reporter and book author James Risen and his refusal to expose a source. But, because most reports
By World BEYOND War, March 11, 2015 Most people in the United States have little contact with Iran or its culture. Iran comes up as
By Norman Solomon A month after former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was convicted on nine felony counts with circumstantial metadata, the zealous prosecution is now having
By David Swanson If you’ve followed the trials of James Risen and Jeffrey Sterling, or read Risen’s book State of War, you are aware that
By John Hanrahan, ExposeFacts.org To hear the prosecution side tell it in the ongoing trial of Jeffrey Sterling, the former CIA officer who is accused
By Norman Solomon, ExposeFacts.org Midway through the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, one comment stands out. “A criminal case,” defense attorney Edward MacMahon
The Jeffrey Sterling trial is a bit disheartening for anyone who’d rather humanity paid a bit of attention to avoiding nuclear apocalypse, even though Sterling exposed the CIA’s crime to Congress, and Sterling or someone else (at least 90 people could have done it) exposed the crime to an author who put it in a book and would have put it in the New York Times if, you know, it weren’t the New York Times (the paper obeyed Condoleezza Rice’s demand for censorship).
The evidence is, of course, extensive that the U.S. government, among others, often uses war as a first, second, or third resort, not a last resort.
