Stefan Svallfors, a Swedish professor on the Nobel Committee, has nominated NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for a Nobel Peace Prize. Svallfors says Snowden deserves it due to his "heroic effort," and notes that it would help recover the prize's "disrepute" following...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that legal advisers to President Obama have warned him since the beginning that aiding the Syrian rebels probably violated international law and risked a direct conflict with the Assad regime. Members of the so-called Lawyers Group...
In May of last year I noted at this blog reports that an amendment had been slipped into the 2013 NDAA bill that nullified two U.S. laws - the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987 - that ban domestic propaganda. This month marks the...
You won't hear it put this way by anyone in Washington, but the main reason cuts to the defense budget are worrying officials is that they make it more difficult to police the world. In Foreign Affairs, Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel suggest a cost-saving measure...
There are rumors that the Obama administration is considering a "zero option" in Afghanistan - that is, abandoning plans to leave a significant residual force there to train Afghans, perform special operations against the Taliban, and bolster the enfeebled Afghan...
Mos Def participated in a demonstration of the force-feeding procedures that more than 40 Gitmo detainees on hunger strike are being subjected to everyday. It's less pleasant than you probably imagined. The United Nations has already said this practice amounts to...
Robert Merry at The National Interest laments President Obama's wishy-washy stance on the events in Egypt. Following the second overthrow of the government in as many years, "one might ask where Obama has stood on the momentous questions facing the Egyptian polity in...
Here's a poster being held in Egypt's Tahrir Square: Source here.
The appalling hubris of the imperial mindset in Washington was on full display yesterday when the U.S. government apparently pressured the governments of France, Spain, Portugal and Italy to deny a plane carrying Bolivia's Evo Morales permission to pass through their...
In the midst of continuing anti-government protests, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has rejected the Egyptian Army's 48-hour ultimatum (by now passed) to either call for early elections or step down. On Monday, I noted the acknowledgement of the Morsi regime that...
