New York Times: The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials. ...On Friday, American jets...
The Afghanistan Study Group blog draws our attention to a particularly egregious example of pro-war propaganda at the Washington Post. Apparently Monday's headline "Support for Afghan war rises, poll shows" was technically true, but still a clear misrepresentation of...
There have been various moments since the start of the Arab Spring where the level of blatant, outright support for Middle Eastern dictatorship on display should have embarrassed Obama and his team, but yesterday was a highlight. The Bahraini Crown Prince Salman...
Former Bush official and current senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Elliot Abrams is salivating with eager anticipation over the prospect that the U.S. - in its omniscience - will oust another Middle Eastern regime. I'm sure he can't contain himself,...
Joseph Dana: The demonstration started off peacefully and then the army attacked the nonviolent demonstration with tear gas and stun grenades. Some Palestinians began throwing stones. via Matt Yglesias: It’s often been suggested in the American press that if...
Yemen's current head of state, Vice President Abedrabo Mansur Hadi, has rejected offers to negotiate an transitional government until President Saleh returns from Saudi Arabia where he is receiving medical treatment for wounds suffered in an attack on his compound....
As I feared yesterday, the Syrian government is using yesterday's alleged attack and killing of 120 security forces by protesters (yet to be verified) as a justification for a massive use of force upon the Syrian people. Residents of the town Jisr al-Shughour, where...
The New York Times brings to our attention an up and comer: On matters like abortion, military spending and religion, Representative Walter B. Jones seems thoroughly in tune with this conservative, staunchly Republican district in eastern North Carolina, home to the...
The real concern coming out of today's alleged events in Syria - that protesters killed 120 Syrian troops in an ambush - is that the Assad regime uses them (true or not) as a justification to violently clamp down on civilians. Thoughts turn to Bashar's father and the...
Rick Santorum has officially announced his candidacy for President. Santorum is about as hawkish as the Republican field is going to get for 2012. And that’s saying a lot. He is most well known for being a culture warrior, but according to him, his expertise lies...
