Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned to Yemen from Saudi Arabia where he had spent month recovering from injuries from a bombing of his residence in June. Despite the lack of media attention, Yemen has been increasingly violent with clashes between...
Bahrainis continue to rise up against their dictatorship, as they have been doing virtually on a daily basis. This week Bahrainis orchestrated a massive demonstration, blocking traffic "in an attempt to step up pressure on the government ahead of by-elections this...
Somewhat old news by now, the two American hikers jailed in Iran on suspicion of being spies, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, were bailed out by the US-allied Omani government for $1 million. They were detained for two years and are now free. In brief statements at the...
Today's Viewpoints section featured "The Delusion of Missile Defense" by Yousaf Butt. A sample: Last week marked the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s announcement of what was to be a radical new approach to missile defense — the Phased Adaptive Approach....
Yesterday's Washington Post: The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia...
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is still in Saudi Arabia, although doesn't seem to be hindered from repressing Yemenis, through his vice president, to secure his rule. Just this week, Yemeni troops killed more than 50 unarmed protesters in the capital Sanaa as...
Politico: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama administration is doing everything it can to shut down the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before the 2012 presidential elections. Speaking Tuesday at the European Parliament, Holder said the...
Noah Feldman discusses a possible outcome of the Palestinian statehood bid: He [Mahmoud Abbas] could also still do what most expected him to try this week: Take his request for statehood to the UN General Assembly, where the U.S. has no veto. A two-thirds vote there...
My neck will grasp as the rope descends How much the ass weighs in the end. ~Francois Villon Paul Krugman got a lot of applause from progressives last week for blasting the politicians and pundits who "cash[ed] in on the horror" of 9/11. A few days later, as if to...
