The Telegraph reports: "The meeting between Dr Fox, Mr Werritty and the head of Mossad will raise further concerns about Mr Werritty’s role and his connections to the Ministry of Defence. It has emerged that Mr Werritty has met several Iranian and Israeli figures in...
Michele Bachmann in last night's presidential debate: Cutting back on foreign aid is one thing. Being reimbursed by nations that we have liberated is another. We should look to Iraq and Libya to reimburse us for part of what we have done to liberate these nations....
I'm consistently amazed at how very smart people can be fooled by the Obama administration's (and his predecessors') fraudulent humanitarian rationale for war. Well, as if we need any more evidence, Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy has recently articulated another nook...
The Iranian government is now accusing Gholam Shakuri - the supposed Quds Force member who assisted US citizens Mansour Arbabsiar in carrying out an assassination of a Saudi ambassador in DC - of being a member of the Iranian terror group Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MeK), a...
We all know about the extrajudicial assassination of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. It was murder without due process, guaranteed him by the Fifth Amendment. Less people know about the same fate befalling his 16-year old son (I reported on it here, but...
Yesterday's New York Times revealed that the Obama administration considered attacking Libya through cyber-warfare before ultimately going the whole bombing and airstrikes route: While the exact techniques under consideration remain classified, the goal would have...
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider the Constitutionality of the so-called Stolen Valor Act. McClatchy: Passed unanimously in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the politically popular legislation imposes prison sentences of up to one year on those...
See more news and interviews on the recent Ugandan intervention here.
The dramatic expansion of drone wars in various countries targeted by the US national security state, has at least in part been predicated on this notion that drones are "precision" killers and we have the ability to target single individuals instead of land ground...
Paul Pillar is one of the most astute thinkers on foreign policy around and there is much on which he and I agree. But his latest blog post runs far afoul from his usual incisive, realist analysis and betrays the spirit of his magazine's blog which bears the name...
