On Friday, Patrick Clawson, the director of research at the pro-Israel think-tank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, suggested that the US should work covertly and through international means of force to provoke Iran to take the first shot against the US...

Many in official Washington are expressing outrage over suspicions that Iraq is allowing neighboring Iran to use its airspace to fly military equipment to the Syrian regime. Iraq has denied the allegations and asked the US to provide proof that the flights contain...

Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, according to a piece by Nazila Fathi at Foreign Policy, has been perpetually harassed by the Iranian regime, which hates her political activism and dissent. She now lives a life in exile, still fighting to expose Tehran's human rights...

A new report from the Stanford and NYU schools of law has found that the US drone war in Pakistan is "counterproductive" and "terrorizes" the civilian population. Read the report here. See this video below accompanying the release of the report. Update: The...

Via Micah Zenko, the Washington Post last week reminded us of official US policy regarding cyber-warfare: Cyberattacks can amount to armed attacks triggering the right of self-defense and are subject to international laws of war, the State Department’s top lawyer said...

The Obama administration's decision to remove the Iranian cult Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the State Department's list of officially designated terrorist groups was a long time coming. But no single act by the administration so crystalizes the hypocrisy and...

Economist Robert Higgs famously described the ratchet effect, in which the state uses crises of one kind or another to expand government's power and scope. Often times a crisis will give the state the opportunity to establish measures previously planned for, but...

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart   On the surface, it seems like conservatives were for spreading democracy in the Middle East if it was a Republican president imposing regime change and continuing to support dictatorship throughout the region, but against it if...

The Obama administration has a good thing going. They get to run a futuristic drone war that operates above the law and allows them to bomb people outside any official theater of conflict, even if they are American citizens with Constitutional rights to due process....