A year ago, the video of US Marines urinating on Afghan corpses surfaced on the internet and shocked most viewers. This week, in the trial proceedings for the Marines' court-martial, it was revealed that the viral video was one of 12 such videos investigators found...
Today is the 52nd anniversary of what is perhaps the most important and prophetic farewell address of any US president. Eisenhower's warning of the unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex in the councils of government was sound advice, although sadly...
Conn Hallinan has an important piece at Foreign Policy in Focus called Militarizing Latin America: Four More Years. Excerpt: As it has in Africa and Asia, the Obama administration has militarized its foreign policy vis-à-vis Latin America. Washington has spread a...
One of the central demands of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in order for him to keep playing ball with the US, was to gain full control over all Afghan prisons after US forces drawdown in 2014. The Obama administration reluctantly agreed to this demand and has been...
I see my colleague John Glaser has taken to the hustings to once again express his skepticism of All Things Hagel. He's convinced that our boy Chuck has "flipped and flopped like a fish out of water" in response to the Other Chuck's (Chuck Schumer, that is)...
Much was supposedly riding on Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) decision about whether to support Obama's nomination for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel. Schumer is a big supporter of Israel and a shameless foreign policy hawk, and Hagel's past positions - like, being willing...
Ben Schreiner points out at CounterPunch that the US involvement in the French-led war in Mali is more about the geo-politics of imperial grand strategy and competing with China in Africa than it is about eliminating serious terrorist threats: According to the U.S....
Israeli Defense Forces on Tuesday shot from behind and killed 16-year-old Samir Awad, a Palestinian boy in the West Bank, as he was retreating*. The IDF claims Awad tried to breach the separation barrier Israel has built to help fortify their system of apartheid and...
Kevin Gosztola over at FireDogLake has a helpful round-up of news stories describing US involvement in the French-led military intervention in Mali: CBS News reported the ”United States is providing communications and transport help for an international military...
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: "No general penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, shall be inflicted upon the population on account of the acts of individuals for which they can not be regarded as jointly and severally responsible." The Guardian reports that...
