In most Hollywood horror franchises we know that the villains – take your Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, or your rakish Freddy Krueger – always come back. No matter what painful death or injury felled them in the previous romp, an endless string of potential victims...
Over at the Christian Science Monitor, Nathan Gardels interviews Hans Blix, chief UN arms inspector for Iraq from 2000-2003 and former head of the IAEA, on the Obama administration's plan for bombing Syria. Blix, of course, has some experience dealing with American...
It's been mentioned that Obama, whether he thinks so or not, is going to need to get Congressional approval before he bombs Syria. It doesn't look like that's going to happen, given that administration officials say strikes could come as early as Thursday of this week...
So if Syrian rebels prevent UN inspectors from verifying the chemical weapons attack, that proves the Assad regime is guilty, right?
This month's belated official acknowledgement by the CIA through declassified documents of what everyone already knew - that the U.S. deliberately fomented a coup in Iran in 1953 to overthrow a democratically elected government and install an obedient dictatorship -...
I have to admit, sometimes I get too bogged down in the moral and practical estimates of U.S. militarism. Just Foreign Policy's Robert Naiman at the Huffington Post reminds us that, ahem, Obama can't legally bomb Syria without Congressional approval: On Sunday,...
One of the favored tactics of Israeli politicians over the years has been to promote the fact that they are willing to negotiate with the Palestinians "without preconditions." This tactic is a beneficial public relations stunt because it is juxtaposed by the...
Aaron David Miller thinks the Obama administration will bomb Syria, aiming not to topple the Assad regime but to "make a point." Noting the Obama administration's reluctance to go to war in Syria, Miller expects a "middle-ground response" like "targeted attacks...
The calls for U.S. military intervention in Syria's civil war are growing louder and louder amidst allegations that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, killing hundreds of people. The use of chemical weapons is beyond the pale, we're told, and must be met with...
In an interview with Amy Goodman on March 2, 2007, U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.), explained that the Bush Administration planned to take out 7 countries in 7 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. So, with the pending illegal action against...
