The U.S. Army is drafting a manual on preventing civilian casualties. Spencer Ackerman: an official with the Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, Dwight Raymond, is drafting a manual on preventing civilian casualties. The manual, formally known as...

This piece up at NPR.org manages to focus on the fact that the U.S. supports dictatorship and torture throughout the world, while still lending almost no criticism to such longstanding policies at all. Like his predecessors, President Obama sometimes has to shake...

Violence is rising in Iraq: Eight people, including four policemen, and 27 wounded Tuesday when insurgents burst into the offices of the Diyala provincial council north of Baghdad, police said. The attack was similar to the assault in March on the officials of the...

Qaddafi forces shelled an oil refinery in the rebel stronghold of Misrata yesterday. It's likely this was an intentional target, hit in order to undermine an important American interest in the country. On another note, here's an interesting read from Foreign Policy on...

From the WSJ: A U.S. plan to fund the democratic transition in Egypt has led to a confrontation with the country's new rulers, who are suspicious of American aims and what they see as political interference in the aftermath of President Hosni Mubarak's downfall....

Katrina vanden Heuvel at The Nation: As we debate an exit from Afghanistan, it’s critical that we focus not only on the costs of deploying the current force of more than 100,000 troops, but also on the costs of maintaining permanent bases long after those troops...

Rep. Ron Paul explains to John King of CNN why the US has no business intervening in Libya:

This perfectly exemplifies the intensity of American nationalism, which makes U.S. officials incapable of recognizing the principle of universality. Hypocrite is a much simpler term: focus on the crimes of others, ignore your own. During an hour and 40 minute meeting...