The Salvadoran government this week officially apologized and asked for forgiveness for the El Mozote massacre in 1981, one of the worst atrocities in their history that happened during their civil war. In December of that year, government forces descended into the...

I seemed to have missed this last week: The presidents of  the Latin American countries attending the eighth summit meeting of the Tuxtla System for Dialogue approved a formal request to the United States and other drug consuming countries that they curb drug...

Last week I noted in a post that according to "a report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council" the "so-called Gaza buffer zone imposed by Israel" - essentially anything close to 300 meters from the northern fence area - is like no man's land. In 2010, 40...

This is a commendable job by al Jazeera journalist Sami Zeidan interviewing U.S. Army Lieutenant General and Commander of the NATO Training Mission William Caldwell. The Lt. Gen. stumbled and bumbled over the embarrassing hard facts Zeidan puts forth, and had no...

The Washington Post reports that, as a result of the automatic cuts imposed by the debt deal, the Pentagon is cutting - or, to use their overly dramatic term, "slashing" - about 8,700 jobs from the Defense Department: The Army said Thursday it is moving forward with...

I sometimes find it difficult to address political speech that is as disgusting as it is stupid. It can be hard to know where to start. And that's exactly how I felt when I refrained from blogging about the Newt Gingrich comment that Palestinians are an "invented...

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell had a great interview on RT's Alyona Show:

Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy interviewed Nabeel Rajab, president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Here are some of his remarks: The military has taken part in suppressing the protests. They have killed people, they have tortured people, they have arrested people,...

For frequent readers, you already know this: Data obtained by Amnesty International shows that the US has repeatedly transferred ammunition to Egypt despite security forces' violent crackdown on protesters. A shipment for the Egyptian Ministry of Interior arrived from...

Yesterday's New York Times pointed out two very interesting notes on the last Republican debate. The candidates were asked to name the national security issue they most worried about which had not already been discussed. Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Rick Perry all...