Unsurprisingly, increased US military and financial support of the Kenyan government is correlated with increases in human rights abuses, according to Jonathan Horowitz at Foreign Policy, who says that the US "may rightly be criticized for aiding and abetting human...
It seems there is a strong possibility that the attacks on the US consulate in Libya, which killed four Americans including the US Ambassador, had much less to do with a dirty anti-Islam movie than with al-Qaeda's presence in that "recently liberated" country. Very...
Jerusalem Post: In an apparent reference to the public spat between the United States and Israel, former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told the Calcalist conference on Tuesday that preserving strong ties with the United States is an Israeli security necessity. "We...
Kurt Eichenwald reminds us in the New York Times that the infamous briefing declassified for the 9/11 Commission entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” was just one of many, many pre-9/11 classified warnings that an attack was imminent. He writes that "the...
The Obama administration has superseded both domestic and international law in its targeted killing program in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. A legal memo from the Congressional Research Service has concluded that "none of the established legal frameworks is a perfect...
It was reported late last week that President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas plans to head off another PLO bid to upgrade Palestine's status at the United Nations to "a state under occupation." The PLO's last attempt at being recognized as a state at the...
From a CNN report on a US drone strike this week in Yemen that killed killed 13 civilians, including three women: Residents are not denying the existence of al Qaeda elements in their region but say that misdirected strikes work in favor of the militant group, helping...
Listen up, and get this straight. President Obama doesn't answer to you or me or any American citizen or to the press, and if he doesn't feel like explaining to you how he utilizes his kingly powers of executing anyone, anywhere on his immediate command, he won't. And...
Yesterday, in our news section, we provided a link to Glenn Greenwald's article on CNN International's refusal to air a documentary it commissioned uncovering the brutal crackdown by the US-backed dictatorship in Bahrain. Greenwald linked to the documentary, now...
According to Jeffrey Lewis at Foreign Policy, "the United States is building a nuclear bomb that costs more than its weight in solid gold." There is now a furious debate about whether the United States needs to modernize the B61, which dates to Lyndon B. Johnson's...
