Bolivian President Evo Morales recently announced he has expelled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), saying such "institutions" "continue to conspire." USAID, thanks to lots of propaganda, is thought to be a wonderful, almost charitable...
IN THIS ISSUE Top News Opinion and analysis This week’s top news: Hagel: US Considering Arming Syria Rebels: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel became the first US official to admit that the administration is "rethinking" its previous decision not to arm...
From Frank Brodhead's Iran War Weekly. Please read the entire report at WarisACrime.org. It is too soon to tell whether Israel’s weekend bombing of Syria will irrevocably change the course of the war and engulf the region in death and fire. Israel has intimated that...
Reports from May 1 protests around the US, particularly in Seattle, may look disturbingly familiar to anyone worried about police militarization. To be fair, this outlet suggests Seattle saw a contingent of aggressive marchers and rioters who were determined to...
A recent New York Times article ascribing the label "isolationist" to those skeptical of military intervention in Syria and North Korea has generated a flurry of commentary about the overall foreign policy debate. Matt Duss summarizes the controversy well: Ask...
There are rumors going around that President Obama "is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the Syrian opposition," although he has said no such thing publicly. Nevertheless, the rumors are sparking a new debate on the wisdom of directly arming the Syrian rebels. I...
Nietzsche is incorrectly often associated with fascism, especially Nazism. When he descended into insanity, his sister Elizabeth took control of his works and selectively edited them to support the Third Reich. This is a shame, because Nietzche wrote many prescient...
President Obama this week defended the US's policy of force feeding detainees in Guantanamo Bay who are protesting their due process-free indefinite detention by going on a hunger strike. On Wednesday, UN human rights officials declared that force feeding amounts to...
In the past few days, two different Atlantic writers have worried that drones are a "sexy" subject which often overshadow other issues. Now, Andrew Cohen's article isn't really about war or drones. It's a reminder that it's not only Anwar al-Awlaki who didn't get due...
The Boston Police Department has announced -- via Twitter -- that three more suspects have been taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombing case. "Details to follow...." The Boston Globe describes the three as college students. Are two of them these guys?...
