Via Juan Carlos Hidalgo at the blog for the Cato Institute, this graph illustrates how Mexican President Felipe Calderón's militarized approach to the drug war not only didn't quell the violence, but reversed the downward trend that had been going on for over a...
Electronic Intifada: “The closure of these and other Palestinian institutions are part of a broader policy through which the Israeli authorities seek to stifle Palestinian development in Jerusalem and increase the strength of Israel’s occupation over East Jerusalem,”...
From CostofWar.org Costs of War: 225,000 Lives and up to US$4 Trillion from Watson Institute on Vimeo.
Journalist Sam Husseini was suspended from The National Press Club for asking a Saudi Prince a tough question. His punishment indicates precisely what is wrong with journalism in this country. At his blog, Husseini offers the transcript of the exchange. His part may...
This week, a Senate committee approved revised language in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 that would attempt to cement in place a system of military tribunals for terrorism suspects, including those caught on American soil and potentially including...
This Reuters reporter went into an Iraqi barber shop to ask Iraqis if America gave them democracy. Here is a compilation of their responses: "OK, we have democracy. We can talk freely with no fear. We can demonstrate and vote freely. All these are available, and all...
...at least, we can surmise this from the country's recent release of 53 child conscripts from its army. They must know Obama cares about stimulating job prospects for children in the world's most horrifying countries to be a human being.
Marcy Wheeler has written quite a piece on Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif, a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo in danger of being jailed for life and deprived of habeas corpus rights because of Obama's tyrannical policy of indefinite detention. At issue is a Yemeni...
Actually, they were merely on the bus as it entered Jerusalem, which is confrontation enough. Free and democratic Israel has such a convoluted and restrictive system of permitting for Palestinians going anywhere that Arabs living in what are considered Jerusalem...
Josh Rogin reports that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta this morning told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq is ready to defend itself. Oh goodie. So this means we won't have to be giving the Iraqi government $2.4 billion in aid each year? And the State...
