In order to agree on a security arrangement governing U.S. military presence in Afghanistan post-2014, Kabul has essentially forced the Obama administration to concede two vital sticking points. First, control of Afghan prisons needed to be relinquished to the Kabul...

The unintended consequences of NATO's fateful intervention in Libya are widening still in Africa's Sahel region. The military coup that took place last month in Mali is a monument to the consequences of U.S. interventionism and the resulting power vacuum and...

Hey Michigan State University, paranoid much? New evidence shows that MSU's decision to close virtually its entire Dubai campus in 2010, nominally for financial reasons, was actually the result of paranoia about "Iranian spies" that they never knew for sure actually...

Washington has just sent a second aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf, joining the rest of the fleet of American warships just south of Iranian shores. Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said the deployment is "routine and not specific to any...

Diplomatic negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran on Tehran's nuclear program begin this Friday. Positions in the talks have been exchanged already, however. Surprisingly, even after the Obama administration spent months resisting calls for war with Iran, Washington's...

Via As'ad AbuKhalil, a video of daily life in Bahrain: This reminds me of a recent article at al Jazeera on excessive exposure to tear gas in Bahrain and how some are concerned about long-term effects like cancer. The Bahraini security forces penchant for tear gas...

Israel's Interior Ministry has announced that they are banning German Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass from entering Israel, despite the fact that Grass never suggested he wanted to visit in the first place. Termed Germany's "most famous living writer," Grass spawned a...

Unveiled over the weekend and dismissed as an April Fool's Day joke, Russia's announcement of a zombie-creating "superweapon" is all too real, insists Premier Vladimir Putin. The zombification ray is being developed by scientists as a more "politically acceptable"...

My piece in today's news section on former CIA officer John Kiriakou and his ongoing trial should be read and followed up with this interview he had with Truthout's Jason Leopold. After watching it, it seems even more utterly absurd that this man should be facing...