1. Noam Chomsky: Iran is too independent and disobedi
(Newsletter)

...rotecting U.S.-owned vessels — and maybe even ships owned by foreigners — from Somali pirates. Actually, the U.S. Navy should butt out of the international piracy field and leave ship-owners to their ...

2. How U.S. Took Over Diego Garcia, Expelled Inhabitants
(Opinions/Daily)

...00 Chagossian inhabitants into exile and gassed their dogs.   By banning journalists from the area, the U.S. Navy was able to perpetrate this with virtually no press coverage, says David Vine, an...

3. World Cop and American Daddy
(Opinions/Politic)

...rotecting U.S.-owned vessels — and maybe even ships owned by foreigners — from Somali pirates. Actually, the U.S. Navy should butt out of the international piracy field and leave ship-owners to their ...

4. Africom's Covert War in Sudan...
(Opinions/Features)

...ns and ammunition en route to Mombassa, Kenya, the Pentagon’s primary base on the east coast of Africa. The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet monitored the Ukrainian ship during the four-month standoff, with the...

5. Bush Officials Violated Anti-Torture Laws
(Opinions/op-ed)

...where. Apparently, Rumsfeld did not put the military on the torture track without internal opposition. Then U.S. Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora, now retired, put up a diligent fight, according aut...

6. Why Those Pearl Harbor 'Conspiracy' Theories Ain’t So
(Opinions/Daily)

...onquer England had strictly ordered his U-boat commanders not to attack American-flag vessels. Moreover, the U.S. Navy also violated neutrality by sending the Royal Navy information on the position of...

7. Will the Next War for Oil be in Africa?
(Opinions/Politic)

...nd Uganda are all direct recipients of such assistance. General James Jones, EUCOM Commander, announced that U.S. Navy carrier battle groups would shorten future visits to the Mediterranean and "...

8. Will McCain Name Torture Ships for Big Donors?
(Opinions/Politic)

...her archaic practice of penology: the hulk, or prison ship." The ship could not, however, belong to the U.S. Navy, because that would make it U.S. territory. It would have to fly some other flag....

9. Decline of the Party Power System
(Opinions/Society)

...eutenant John McCain received preferential treatment from his Vietnamese captors because he was the son of a U.S. Navy admiral. It was Henry Kissinger, and not McCain himself, who blocked a North Viet...

10. Woodstock May Have Saved Sen. McCain's Life
(Opinions/op-ed)

...g intelligence in behalf of the South Vietnamese government, with whom the North Vietnamese were at war. The U.S. navy was hardly minding its own business. McCain, then, was not protecting the America...