In no way do I entirely endorse Micah Zenko's latest post at the Council of Foreign Relations blog, but he does put forth a healthy dose of skepticism about the Iranian nuclear issue and the clambering for war since the IAEA's latest hyperbolic report. Zenko points...
When people talk of "remembering" the service of military soldiers, it's typically associated with vague, irrational, nationalistic appreciation the supposed virtues of taking orders of violence while in uniform. Memorial day is supposed to memorialize the greatness,...
A nice little segment of al Jazeera's series Empire:
Pointing out Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's turn towards dictatorship is no longer a fad for opposition members of parliament and voiceless Iraqi subjects. Now it's so blatant that it's recognized by everyone. Even the New York Times. The Obama administration...
From yesterday's Washington Post, in an article entitled "Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing": But the administration has allowed only a handful of strikes, out of concern that a broader campaign could turn al-Shabab from a regional menace...
The Nigerian terror group Boko Haram detonated explosives early this week in Christian churches during Christmas mass, killing about 40 people. The attacks are just the latest in a series of an increasingly frequent actions by the group, which has renewed vigor as of...
The Guardian reported on Sunday that "senior British officials believe that a 'last push' in 2012 is likely to definitively destroy al-Qaida's remaining senior leadership in Pakistan." The vicious drone war, wildly accelerated under Obama, has managed to kill a...
The war in Afghanistan is costing hundreds of billions of dollars. The military occupation is party to severe human rights violations and outright atrocities. Conditions are not only not improving, they are getting worse. If you're a regular reader of this site, you...
Back during the initial swing of protests in Bahrain, and when the Khalifa regime's crackdown was at its harshest, dozens of medical professionals were arrested for the crime of treating as patients those protesters who had been injured by violent Bahraini security...
As the presidential campaign drifts into its most petty and superficial, here is a reminder of what is important, of what Washington is all about and is likely to continue being all about unless Americans wake up and understand what U.S. terrorism around the world...
