In an editorial this week, the Washington Post displays incredible ignorance of US foreign policy. "When the Obama administration resumed military sales to the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain in 2012," the editors naively write, "it explained the decision as an effort...
After almost four decades, the US has agreed to help Vietnam clean up the deadly poison sprayed all over the country from 1961-1971, Agent Orange. While Washington was needlessly laying waste to the Vietnamese people, they claimed to use the dangerous herbicide to...
At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later [Aug. 9], a...
The Pentagon will not wither and crumble according to Cato's Christopher Preble, Benjamin Friedman and Dan Mitchell.
The attack in the Sinai on Sunday was followed by a wild round of accusations from nearly everyone in a desperate attempt to exploit the incident for their own state interests. Even though Hamas strongly condemned the attack as a "heinous crime," Israel saw fit to...
Barbara Slavin at Al-Monitor reviews the new book by David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran. Crist is a US Defense Department historian and a lieutenant colonel in the US Marine Corps Reserve whose father was one...
Steven Aftergood on the stubborn secrecy of Congress: It is a simple fact that under the FISA Amendments Act “the government can and does intercept the communications of U.S. citizens, even in the absence of any particularized warrant or showing of probable cause,”...
Charles Davis noted on Sunday President Obama's statement on the act of terrorism committed by a man shooting up a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The President "mourn[ed] this loss which took place at a house of worship" and killed six people. By contrast, Davis...
Anthony Gregory on the anniversary of America's dropping of nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945: The only way to regard the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and so many other U.S. war campaigns, as anything other than state terrorism, is to define the concept in such an...
Columbia University Professor Gary Sick on the apparent "curtain of silence [that] has been drawn" over the aid being sent by the US and its allies to the Free Syrian Army: ...I look — mostly in vain — for any detailed disclosure of the sources and methods that are...
