Like the gleeful sound one makes upon hearing that a particularly obnoxious and troublesome relative will not be attending a family gathering, Washington officials probably issued a collective sigh of relief when hearing the news that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin...

This is a photo of an undercover policeman kicking the head of a Kyrgyz demonstrator this week. The National Endowment for Democracy and the Bush adminsitration were proud of their role in the uprising that led to the current government taking power in Kyrgyzstan....

Peace Action Fund of New York State and The Nation Institute present A World Without Nuclear Weapons: Obama’s Vision, Our Mission with Daniel Ellsberg, whistle-blower, nuclear expert and star of the Academy Award-nominated documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in...

The disturbing footage of the US military in action will be excused by many conservative warmongers in one of two ways (or perhaps both). One, although the incident is unfortunate, collateral damage is inevitable, and this incident should not discredit the greater...

From today's Washington Post website - "FBI warns extremist letters may encourage violence" By EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEVLIN BARRETT The Associated Press Friday, April 2, 2010; 9:34 AM .... The article ominously notes: " In the past year, federal agents have seen an...

I don’t want this blog to get obsessed with any one individual, and I fear that we’re moving in that direction with Tom Friedman, the main foreign-policy columnist at the New York Times and named by an insiders’ poll at the National Journal last year as...

On Thursday, April 1st, KUCR 88.3FM and the University of California at Riverside's Highlander Newspaper present best-selling author and journalist Reese Erlich on Obama's Challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons and the Fate of the Middle East with a panel discussion...