"...it was a direct violation of the constitutional rights of everybody in the country..."

People who actually work for the military empire and aren't running for office tend to be very honest about America's monstrous foreign policy. The fact that America has helped prop up barbarous dictatorships throughout the Middle East for decades isn't really allowed...

The Los Angeles Times has released just two of 18 photographs depicting U.S. soldiers posing happily next to Afghan corpses, or pieces of bodies. As with previous such incidents, the dehumanization of the "enemy" - a virtual necessity in war - runs deep. Other...

James Harkin argues at Foreign Policy that the internationalization of the conflict in Syria has exacerbated the civil strife there. Part of the problem lies with the Syrian National Council - the exile group allying itself with the opposition fighters - and their...

From ACLU's Blog of Rights: Today the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information about a horrific U.S. missile strike that killed dozens of civilians in Yemen. This was the Obama administration's first...

There is a fixation in elite foreign policy circles these days to speculate on the impending decline of America's global economic and military hegemony and to lament that decline as the dangerous end to international order. Without global American dominance, goes the...

The "increasingly large chorus of nations" in Central America arguing for decriminalization of drugs instead of Washington's failed drug war seem not to have received their warranted share of focus at the Summit of the Americas conference this weekend. The havoc and...

Laura Rozen in World Politics Review recaps this past weekend's P5+1 nuclear talks with Iran in Istanbul: First, the parties agreed that Iran, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is obligated to prove that its nuclear program is for purely...

This weekend's hemispheric summit in Colombia could spark an open revolt against the U.S. drug war. It is most encouraging to see Latin American leaders finally declaring their independence against this disastrous policy. Ending the war on drugs could be a huge step...

Once again exemplifying the ridiculous amount of sway the US wields over nominally independent countries, a new report on Georgia's upcoming elections has Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire and would-be prime minister of Georgia, spending large amounts of money on US...