I have a piece in the news section today about U.S. drones being deployed in Turkey in support of Ankara's fight against the Kurdish separatist rebels (Kurdistan Worker's Party/PKK). This, despite ongoing investigations by rights groups into whether the Turkish...
Some surprisingly good CBS reporting on Bagram Airbase as the new legal black hole, secret prison of the Obama administration: There are now 3,000 detainees in Bagram, up from 1,700 since June (!) and five times the amount there when Barack Obama took office. Many of...
America's political leaders constantly point to Egypt with pride, as a self-congratulatory example of how they are on the side of democracy and the Arab Spring. Hidden from the stump speeches for a miserably ignorant American public was how the U.S. supported the...
Yesterday's headline in the Independent is an example of how U.S. policy towards Colombia has been labeled by some as at least a partial success. It reads: "Is this the grisly end of Colombia's civil war?" The event that prompted such vaunted optimism was the killing...
I've said it until I'm blue in the face, but I guess I'll say it again: Iran is operating out of a perception of threat and provocative militarism towards Iran will only increase the likelihood that they decide to seek a deterrent (That said, of course, the recent...
As'ad AbuKhalil, for those who don't know, is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University. On his blog today, he cited a news source in Arabic, which I can't read, but he summarizes it for us: This is not in the US media but is...
President Barack Obama, Octobert 20, 2011: One year ago, the notion of a free Libya seemed impossible. But then the Libyan people rose up and demanded their rights...The new government is consolidating the control over the country...So this is a momentous day in the...
See a couple of my recent pieces on Mexico's messed up drug war, here and here.
U.S. aid to the essentially military regime in Honduras has increased every single year since the coup in 2009, with $68 million allocated for 2012, as I wrote about recently. And, as Dana Frank at Nation magazine has documented, Obama has “allocated $45 million in...
