In a discussion on NPR's Morning Edition yesterday, host Steve Inskeep asked Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, an important question regarding the massacre in Kenya by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab: INSKEEP: Is there a...
The U.S. and Iranian presidents are probably going to meet face to face at the U.N. today. "They may even shake hands, " CNN reports. This would be pretty significant given the history of enmity between these two nations and it would follow several weeks of what cable...
The crux of why the Obama administration's Asia-Pivot strategy is reckless and stupid is contained in the first question and answer of Foreign Policy's interview with Japan's Defense Minister, Itsunori Onodera. Foreign Policy: What kind of commitment has the United...
Back in May, former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Ríos Montt was convicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in an historic case, the first time a former head of state had been prosecuted for genocide by his own country. Ten days after his...
One of the most frequently uttered fictions coming from Syria hawks is the claim that the Assad regime has slaughtered 100,000 Syrians. As Sen. John McCain has repeatedly yelped, "The fact is Bashar Assad has massacred 100,000 people." But as Micah Zenko of the...
The Obama administration promises over and over again they are only sending arms to secular, freedom-loving Syrian rebels, not those Islamic jihadists associated with terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. If that's true, then why was it necessary for the president to...
Remember sequestration? Well, according to the mandatory cuts to the federal budget, funding for fiscal year 2014 can’t exceed $967 billion. Funny then, that House Republicans have proposed a budget of $988 billion for 2014. The reason, according to the Cato...
"Bahrain security forces routinely detain children without cause and subject them to ill-treatment that may rise to the level of torture," Human Rights Watch said in a report this week. “Rounding up kids, throwing them in jail and beating and threatening them is no...
