Yesterday, the Boston Globe reported on a renewed legal case against Inocente Orlando Montano, "a former Salvadoran government minister accused of colluding in the infamous killing of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador two decades ago," who has apparently been living a...
The moral color of the Obama administration's call for Syrian President Bashar al Assad to step down is a bit unnerving. First of all, today's announcement is being hailed as huge news, but it barely differs from previous statements that Assad must reform or get out...
The Posse Comitatus Act is one of the most important measures in this country imposing restrictions on the federal government and Executive power. It essentially prohibits the federal government from using the military for law enforcement, which, despite the problems...
Via the Just the Facts blog, this U.S. Trade and Aid Monitor* details the corporatist approach to drug war foreign policy. The Department of Defense is extending a privately contracted five-year global counter narcotics program valued upwards of $15 billion. The...
CNN's top-front story this morning is a disgusting video showing a dead girl from the al-Ranel neighborhood of Latakia. She was shot in the eye, and is sprawled out on the sidewalk. "Her mouth was frozen, slightly ajar. Her vacant face and lifeless head conjured the...
That's the title of Kevin Baron's piece at Stars and Stripes, which explains how propaganda is wrapped around the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan to make them seem as if they're on the losing end. Politico’s Morning Defense shared an email Monday that is pure...
At the blog for the Council on Foreign Relations, Elliot Abrams concludes that people who think illegal settlement construction hinders the Israeli-Palestinian peace process are not living "in the real world." Abrams has argued before, amazingly, that settlements in...
The Associated Press headline pushes the occupation line that the "coalition" is trying to "build" a cadre of leaders, but a perusal of the text makes clear that Kabul and its Western masters are actively demolishing age-old local governance traditions in a probably...
During the Cold War, the pretext for reigning terror down upon the masses in Central and South America through U.S. imperialism was the creeping communist threat. This was used as a justification for our 1954 overthrow of Guatemala's democratically elected...
Richard Falk has an insightful and somewhat dispiriting piece at al Jazeera called "Why the Afghanistan War Won't End Soon." He writes about the prescience of the so-called 'Vietnam Syndrome' (once referred to as "sickly inhibitions against the use of military...
