At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and more than 70 wounded in Israel's latest set of airstrikes in Gaza. The vast majority of these casualties have been civilians. By contrast, three Israeli civilians have been wounded by rocket fire. In response to this, the...

The scorched corpse this Afghan woman is sitting next to is that of an Afghan boy, her grandson, slaughtered and burned by the U.S. sergeant on Sunday. This is one of 16 civilians killed. See my piece from yesterday on the massacre and the history of letting murderers...

The conflict with Iran is framed as a conflict over nuclear proliferation. So important is it, we are told, that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, that we could risk war and death and suffering and trillions of dollars to prevent it. But the story gets bizarre after...

This cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker may have been inspired by the Republican primaries - or Obama - or ???

Los Angeles Times on how horrible Libya is post-U.S. liberation: Rising inter-tribal violence has left scores dead. About 100 people were reported killed last month when rival tribes battled with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the remote southern town...

This week's meeting between Obama and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu was said to have ended more cordially than their last face-to-face. And Netanyahu does seem to have cooled his calls for war and threats to attack Iran even without notifying the U.S. After...

Aside from being a war-monger, Senator Lindsey Graham has poor eyesight. No matter how much he squints, he has never seen fault in U.S. foreign policy (unless, of course, it hasn't been sufficiently interventionist for him). But somehow circumstances have developed so...

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies has just completed another survey of Arab public opinion. Some relevant findings: 73 percent of respondents believe that Israel and the US are the two countries presenting the largest threat to the security of the Arab...