HRW On Mexico’s ‘War On Drugs’
See a couple of my recent pieces on Mexico's messed up drug war, here and here.
Obama’s Reagan-like Drug War in Latin America
U.S. aid to the essentially military regime in Honduras has increased every single year since the coup in 2009, with $68 million allocated for 2012, as I wrote about recently. And, as Dana Frank at Nation magazine has documented, Obama has “allocated $45 million in...
Knesset Speaker on ‘Jewish Terrorism’
Via Jacob Heilbrunn, speaker of the Israeli Knesset Reuven Rivlin speaks out against price-tag attacks, in which extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank attack Palestinians and their property out of anger towards the dismantling of illegal Jewish settlements in...
IAEA on Iran: A ‘Colossal Non-Event’ As Casus Belli
Flynt Leverett, professor of International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University and Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, and his wife Hillary Mann Leverett, CEO of Strategic Energy and Global Analysis, write of the IAEA report on Iran: Ever since...
Mixed Messages on Terror
While Germany continues to present itself as a key partner in the "War on Terror" and waxes judgmental about factions within NATO-occupied Afghanistan that launch terrorist attacks that kill civilians, they seem to be operating at cross-purposes, having dedicated a...
Thirty Years of Misleading the Public on Iranian Nuclear Capabilities
The Christian Science Monitor has a brilliant timeline up covering warnings of Iranian nuclear weapons capability for over thirty years. According to western intelligence, they've pretty much always been on the verge of having the bomb. Below is a summary. 1984: West...
Uranium and Beeswax
Too bad ol' Doc Prather is retired now. If he wasn't, I guarantee to you that he would point out that buried in all the scaremongering about what Iran "may" be up to, the new IAEA report [.pdf] says: "[T]he Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared...
Cleared for Release in ’07, Detainee Still Caged at Gitmo
And apparently it's because he wasn't obedient enough to his illegitimate, abusive masters. Amnesty International: Shaker Aamer, a former UK resident of Saudi descent, has been held without charge at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for nearly 10...
Arab Spring Lies Are Getting Pretty Old
Josh Rogin reports on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent speech on the Arab Spring. It is being billed by State Department officials as one that "takes on the hard questions that people in the region -- and people back here -- have been asking about the U.S....
