Clyde Prestowitz at Foreign Policy explains the elephant in the room: that the recent militarism and aggressive rhetorical chest-beating coming from the highest reaches of America's national security state towards Asia-Pacific is not about any sort of military threat....
Via As'ad AbuKhalil, AP reporter Matt Lee makes US State Department spokesperson squirm on Palestine and UNESCO issue:
I guess this would be less relevant if Obama had not just sent combat troops to support the Ugandan military and government in their fight against the LRA. Amnesty International: The Ugandan government and public officials are increasingly placing illegitimate...
The $53 million worth of arms and military equipment from the US was set to go to Bahrain last month. After pressure on the Obama administration to stop giving weapons to dictatorships that will almost surely continue to use them against their own non-violent citizens...
At CNN.com, Jennifer Fenton interviews a former guard at Guantanamo Bay detention center. He tells a number of anecdotes of abuse, here is one: The IRF team opened the cell door and the one team member carrying a riot shield threw it off to the side. "And whatever...
Paul Wolfowitz and Michael O'Hanlon write in Foreign Policy that the Obama administration should apply "the Colombia model" to the strategy in Afghanistan in order to be "successful." The US's well known Plan Colombia policy, they write, "is rightly considered a...
Washington Examiner: Obama's Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond to those who file FOIA requests that a document does not exist if it pertains...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently appeared on Russian television to discuss the current crisis in his country. He reiterated what he has held for months as the primary impetus behind his harsh crackdown on protesters: outside interference is fomenting the...
Breaking news -- A Bosnian gunman reportedly attacked the US embassy in Sarajevo: he has been shot by police and arrested. I guess this is a "thank you" note for Bill Clinton's efforts on their behalf.
When you're shilling for a war in Iran as regularly as the Washington Times does, you're constantly making up allegations centering around what anonymous officials totally bet is the case. That and hiring artists to make caricatures of an Ayatollah made of nukes. The...
