Spencer Ackerman has a great piece up at the Guardian exploring what is likely to happen to the government's legal justification for holding people under indefinite detention at Guantanamo Bay once the U.S.'s combat operations in Afghanistan are over in December. The...
The people being targeted in the Obama administration's drone war are "suspects" who deserve due process, renowned linguist and political radical Noam Chomsky said during a talk at Google this month. There's a debate in the United States, Chomsky said, about the...
Whenever the U.S. gets outraged by the actions of another state, be prepared for elaborate displays of self-deception and hypocrisy. This has surely been on display in the case of the latest outrage in Russia's annexation of Crimea and meddling in Ukraine. At the Cato...
The one idea interventionists have to solve the Syrian conflict is to eliminate the Assad regime. Regime change is the solution to the humanitarian calamity, they reason, because the Assad is the one doing all the killing. As Sen. John McCain has repeatedly yelped,...
Kudos to Democracy Now for covering this:
When faced with ideas of non-intervention in foreign policy, the most common refrain among hawkish Republicans is that such notions are naive, immature, unrealistic, and "wacko." In reality, it is the foreign policy worldview of the Republican establishment that has...
In a powerful testament to the value of Edward Snowden's decision to leak, the Pulitzer Prize for journalism was awarded to the Guardian and the Washington Post. This came just days after the lead reporters on Snowden's NSA stories - Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras,...
The U.S. is assembling the rudiments of imperial infrastructure throughout Africa, and hardly anybody knows about it. Hardly anybody knows about it because the government and military refuse to divulge much of U.S. foreign policy towards Africa. You see, U.S. foreign...
The White House has just confirmed what had been reported in Russian media that CIA Director John Brennan was in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev over the weekend. "Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is accusing the CIA of being behind the new government's...
Errol Morris's new documentary about Donald Rumsfeld, The Unknown Known, is not as valuable as his last piece The Fog of War, a similarly styled conversation with another former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara. The fault is not Morris's, but Rumsfeld's. In The...
