Bryant Harris

Bio

Bryant Harris is a reporter with Inter Press Service News. He has worked in Muscat, Oman and was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco. He graduated from UW-Madison in 2011 with a BA in Middle East Studies.

Elizabeth Warren vs. Hillary Clinton: Who's the Better Liberal?
By Bryant Harris
When Elizabeth Warren said that she would not run for president in 2016, she gave presumptive frontrunner Hillary Clinton a clearer path to the Democratic nomination. But as popular as Hillary is, is she the best choice for liberals?    1.…
Syrian Execution Video: So-Called Moderate Rebels Also Committing War Crimes
By Bryant Harris
"War is hell," as the old platitude goes, and there is no war where both sides have not committed atrocities. The Syrian civil war is no exception. A rebel, disenchanted with such atrocities, has smuggled a video out of Syria graphically depicting a…
Donald Rumsfeld Still Giving Foreign Policy Advice For Some Weird Reason
By Bryant Harris
As President Barack Obama's administration tries to rally the support of Congress and the American people in a unilateral strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in response to a chemical weapons attack that may have killed…
Dennis Rodman North Korea Visit: How a Baller is Rebounding Kim Jong-un's Image
By Bryant Harris
On September 1, North Korea revoked an invitation to Robert King, the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights, on account of joint U.S.-South Korean war games in which the U.S. allegedly used B-52H aircrafts designed to drop nuclear…
Syria Strike: Will Hitting Assad Help Al-Qaeda?
By Bryant Harris
Even though the UN has not yet concluded whether Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime or the rebels were responsible for the chemical weapons slaughter in Damascus, President Barack Obama is insisting that the U.S. is somehow certain of Assad's…
Joe Biden Wanted Bush Impeached For the Very Thing Obama is About to Do
By Bryant Harris
In 2007, Senator Joe Biden repeatedly threatened to lead an effort to impeach President George W. Bush in the House should he attack Iran without congressional authorization. Senator Obama agreed that Bush did not have the power to order a strike on…
Syria Facts: 11 Things to Know About the Country We're Going to Bomb
By Bryant Harris
On August 27, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that, should President Obama give the order, the U.S. military is ready to launch attacks on Syria. The U.S. is responding to the Assad regime's alleged use of chemical weapons outside of…
The CIA Just Let a Man Smuggle Uranium On a Plane — But They Have a Pretty Good Reason
By Bryant Harris
On August 21, United States agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport arrested Patrick Campbell, a 33-year-old man from Sierra Leone, for carrying uranium in the soles of his shoes. Campbell ultimately intended to exploit his mining…
Chelsea Manning Hormone Therapy: Will the Military Foot the Bill?
By Bryant Harris
Private Chelsea Manning, more famously known by her birth name as Private Bradley Manning, is having a rough week. On August 21 a military judge sentenced Manning to 35 years in prison for sending over 700,000 war log documents to Wikileaks, the…
NSA Spying Gets Even Creepier With Facial Recognition Software
By Bryant Harris
The Department of Homeland Security is developing new technology that would allow it to scan people’s faces and identify them in a crowd. The Biometric Optic Surveillance System (BOSS), has been in development for over two years and the DHS tested…
Al Jazeera America Debuts, But Will Real 'Muricans Watch It?
By Bryant Harris
Al Jazeera America (AJAM) is set to debut on Tuesday. In January Al Gore sold his struggling liberal news network, Current TV, to the Qatari news company for $70 million, paving the way for Al Jazeera to expand to U.S. airwaves. Al Jazeera has been…
David Miranda Detained By Brits in Blatant Attempt to Intimidate Glenn Greenwald
By Bryant Harris
While most of us were enjoying our weekend, the British authorities spent nine hours detaining and questioning David Miranda, a Brazilian national and the partner of muckraking journalist Glenn Greenwald, who serves as whistleblower Edward Snowden's…
Bahrain Arrests and Tortures American Tagi Al-Maidan, and U.S. Barely Lifts a Finger to Help
By Bryant Harris
Bahrain's al-Khalifa regime, which systematically discriminates against the country's Shi'a majority, is out of control. Ever since Bahrani Shi'as organized around the February 14 movement in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring protests, the regime has…
Egypt's Shameful Response to Peaceful Assembly
By Bryant Harris
The Egyptian military has finally made good on its longstanding threats to crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood’s predominantly peaceful pro-Morsi demonstrations in Cairo and across the country. The crackdowns are a disgraceful display of a…
Why Everyone Should Oppose North Carolina's New Voter ID Laws
By Bryant Harris
On August 12 North Carolina's Republican Governor Pat McCrory, signed a voter identification bill passed by the state's Republican-dominated legislature. In January 2011, Public Policy Polling found that 66% of North Carolinians support a voter ID…
This Rodeo Clown Puts On An Obama Mask, and What Happens Next is Terrible
By Bryant Harris
The Missouri State Fair is making unusual media waves today as reports surface about a rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask and asked the crowd if they wanted to watch "Obama run down by a bull." The incident garnered media coverage when Perry Beam, a…
Why Are Chinese Workers At Apple Suppliers Foxconn and Pegatron Trying to Commit Suicide?
By Bryant Harris
Tian Yu, a 17-year old Chinese employee of Foxconn, Apple’s chief supplier and manufacturer of tablet and smart phone devices, was in a coma for 12 days after her suicide attempt. At Foxconn, her managers made her work over 12 hours a day, often…
If You've Communicated With Someone Outside Of the U.S., the NSA Has Spied On You
By Bryant Harris
Although federal officials have acknowledged that the NSA monitors communications of Americans in contact with foreigners abroad, they forgot to tell the American people that they also run warrantless searches on their records for references linking…
This Kenyan Lawyer Wants to Sue Italy and Israel For Killing Jesus
By Bryant Harris
A Kenyan lawyer wants Jesus' conviction overturned — and doesn't care that he's fighting a 2,000-year-old case. Dola Indidis says that Jesus’s “selective and malicious prosecution violated his human rights through judicial misconduct, abuse of…
The DEA is Using NSA Surveillance and Covering It Up
By Bryant Harris
On August 5, Reuters revealed that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is storing wiretaps and other intelligence intercepts, some of which it obtains from the NSA, in a massive database called DICE. The agency then uses DICE to launch investigations…