Glenn Greenwald has a brilliant piece up today on what seem to be the real reasons behind the war in Libya: oil. Much of the war has actually seemed extremely odd, as if it didn’t match up. There seemed to be many more reasons for the administration not to get...
The horror the Assad regime is unleashing on the Syrian people is the culmination of some of the worst atrocities in this Arab Spring. Details like body counts are occasionally available from elsewhere in Syria, but in Jisr al-Shughour, where thousands of Syrian...
With the 40-year-late full release of the Pentagon Papers, CNN conducted an interview with the famous whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg. To me, this was the central question: On June 23, 1971, in an interview with CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, you said, "I think the...
The decision to make Leon Panetta Secretary of Defense was a very conscious one. Fundamentally, it wasn't so much a strategic change in personnel, but rather a calculated decision to expel the American people from any consciousness of foreign policy. It is easier to...
In Singapore last week, Defense Secretary Gates spoke at an International Institute for Strategic Studies meeting and argued for “sustaining a robust [U.S.] military presence in Asia.” He spoke of overcoming “anti-access and area denial scenarios” that the U.S....
New York Times: The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials. ...On Friday, American jets...
The Afghanistan Study Group blog draws our attention to a particularly egregious example of pro-war propaganda at the Washington Post. Apparently Monday's headline "Support for Afghan war rises, poll shows" was technically true, but still a clear misrepresentation of...
There have been various moments since the start of the Arab Spring where the level of blatant, outright support for Middle Eastern dictatorship on display should have embarrassed Obama and his team, but yesterday was a highlight. The Bahraini Crown Prince Salman...
Former Bush official and current senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Elliot Abrams is salivating with eager anticipation over the prospect that the U.S. - in its omniscience - will oust another Middle Eastern regime. I'm sure he can't contain himself,...
Joseph Dana: The demonstration started off peacefully and then the army attacked the nonviolent demonstration with tear gas and stun grenades. Some Palestinians began throwing stones. via Matt Yglesias: It’s often been suggested in the American press that if...
