In The Crisis of Zionism Peter Beinart catalogues some interesting things about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's father, Benzion Netanyahu, who has been a strong ideological influence on Benjamin. And in 2009, at the age of ninety-nine, he told the Israeli...
Israeli authorities have basically ignored a court order in June 2011 to provide Bedouin communities with water, just as Jewish Israelis are. Electronic Intifada: Between 80,000 and 90,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel live in unrecognized villages in the southern Negev,...
Central America has become the most dangerous place on Earth. The prevalence of organized crime, corruption, and inordinate rates of homicide has "metastasized," as this new report from the Council on Foreign Relations describes it. The U.S. has flooded the region's...
Yesterday was the 95th anniversary of President Wilson's address to Congress calling for a declaration of war against Germany. The U.S. entry into the war opened a Pandora's Box that still plagues America and much of the world. One of the war's clearest lessons: Lies...
Via Malou Innocent, embedded journalist Neil Shea writes in The American Scholar about the mistreatment perpetrated on Afghans by U.S. soldiers, which the media (including himself, he admits) never include in the war coverage. From shooting valuable animals and pets...
Via Jeremy Scahill, this news from Alakhbar English (Lebanese paper) on the WikiLeaks Stratfor emails: US government officials requested that an American private security firm contact Syrian opposition figures in Turkey to see “how they can help in regime change,” the...
It was reasonable to expect that troops, who knew the errand they were sent upon, would treat the people whom they were to subjugate, with a cruelty and haughtiness which too often buries the honorable character of a soldier in the disgraceful name of an unfeeling...
Unfortunately, this zippety P.C. Vey cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker may soon be out of date....
Source: Pivot to the Pacific? The Obama Administration’s “Rebalancing” Toward Asia
In my latest conversation with Scott Horton on Antiwar Radio, we discussed the renewed focus Washington has had on Africa, particularly in the first term of the Obama administration. As part of a larger foreign policy I wrote about here and here, the U.S. is now...
