I am mystified why, after the uproar of over the 4 Americans killed last September in Benghazi, Libya, that there is so little outrage against Hillary Clinton over the 37 dead hostages in Algeria. Clinton was gung-ho on bombing Qadaffi out of power and she gloated...
When putting together links for activists or our weekly newsletter, one excellent resource is the Iran War Weekly featured at WarIsACrime.org by Frank Brodhead. Iran’s nuclear program, and the possibilities of war against Iran, will likely be prominent in the Senate...
I can anticipate all the objections. Regardless, keeping Bradley Manning's name in the press increases the chances that some justice, somewhere might be served. From Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Margrét Tryggvadóttir, Members of the Icelandic Parliament: We have the great...
This would seem to bring 'leading from behind' to a brand new level. ABC News: Reporting from Bamako, Mali’s capital, ABC News correspondent Bazi Kanani reported Monday that the U.S. Air Force C-17 brought in several dozen French troops, equipment and vehicles. ...
Interest groups have always tried to influence the state for their own unearned benefit. Despite what idealists in this country would like to believe, going back to the founding of the United States, immediately following the end of the Revolutionary War, everyone...
Prisoners in Afghanistan continue to be tortured and abused in detention facilities under Afghan control and Afghanistan's spy agency is operating secret prisons to avoid international scrutiny, according to a United Nations report released on Sunday. The UN...
New York Times: “The French, who are so gloomy and pessimistic about the situation in the country and the economy, have at least one reason to be proud of what their country can achieve,” Jean-David Levitte, the diplomatic adviser to former President Nicolas Sarkozy...
Worth remembering on MLK day is his vehement opposition to the ruthless American terrorism in Indochina. He called it "the destruction of Vietnam." Hear and read his famous speech, delivered on April 4, 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside...
Interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox News:
Marc Lynch at Foreign Policy responds to the criticism that earlier US intervention in Syria would have prevented the hopeless bloodbath there: Advocates of intervention frequently complain that the United States could have prevented this fiasco through earlier, more...
