As prominent voices in the U.S. pontificate about a looming nuclear bomb in Iran, as fleets of U.S. navy warships demonstrate provocative militarism in the Persian Gulf, and as Israel uses its committed constituency in America to push for a preemptive military strike,...
Daily Beast: After months of internal debate, the Obama administration is planning to reveal publicly the legal reasoning behind its decision to kill the American-born leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Anwar al-Awlaki. Marcy Wheeler: The problem–the problem...
Longtime U.S. ally and embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is on his way to America, reportedly to seek medical treatment. This decision to come to the U.S. was made after Saleh apparently gave up trying to muscle his way back into the power structure in...
James Dobbins of the RAND Corp. has written a piece which basically says the Obama administration's recent attempts to negotiate with the Taliban is not a sign that the war is coming to an end. He compares it with peace talks between the U.S. and the North Vietnamese,...
Antiwar.com columnist, Econlog blogger, and economics professor David Henderson appeared on John Stossel's show on the Fox Business channel last night. Henderson debated regular Fox contributor Colonel David Hunt on "war, Ron Paul's foreign policy views, Israel, 9/11,...
Rolling Stone has published a new interview with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, conducted by Michael Hastings. Here are some notable excerpts: "From the glory days of American radicalism, which was the American Revolution, I think that Madison's view on government is...
One of the primary concerns of the U.S. Department of Defense is that America's military is permitted to span the entire globe. In a DoD paper released yesterday, the Joint Operational Access Concept was introduced as a strategy to deal with what the military calls...
Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has a piece at the Daily Beast which warns not just against starting a war with Iran, but against "letting a bunch of ignorant, sloppy-thinking politicians and politicized...
One of the defining characteristics of contemporary conservatism is to let irrational fear guide how much freedom Americans should be allowed to exercise and, correspondingly, how much unchecked power the government should have over individual rights and the "national...
