The threat from Iran is overhyped and there is no evidence to suggest the Islamic Republic is even interested in developing nuclear weapons, according to UN official Hans Blix. Blix was head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission in...
"The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the 'dirty wars' in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents," The Guardian reports. "These units conducted some of the...
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The controversy, arising out of the drone war, that President Obama has the authority to assassinate US citizens abroad in non-war zones just got even more disgraceful. The Obama administration's Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter in response to persistent...
News broke this week that Israeli bus company Afikim began running "Palestinian-only" buses to transport West Bank Palestinian workers into Israel, reportedly because Israeli settlers complained about having to ride the bus with Arabs. See Mondoweiss for details on...
See here for the background of the UK investigations of "terrifying acts of brutality" by British troops in Iraq. We all know the stories from Abu Ghraib. And see here and here for some of the details about US-sanctioned torture that the WikiLeaks cables revealed.
Secretary of State John Kerry stopped off in Saudi Arabia on Monday to stand united in the name of democracy in Syria. The Associated Press called it "a united front," reporting that Kerry and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal "warned Syrian President...
In anticipation for his book release next month, Vali Nasr is publishing harsh critiques of the Obama administration's foreign policy (see earlier ones here and here). Nasr was at the State Department in Obama's first term working on Afghanistan and Pakistan under...
Less than a week. That's how long it took for Hagel to start toeing the Obama line on sequestration, contradicting his now infamous prior statement that the Pentagon is "bloated" and "needs to be pared down." Antiwar voices that got excited over Hagel's nomination...
You want an illustration of how devastatingly draconian the impending defense budget cuts are going to be? Try this on for size: no more military jets flying over sporting events. Oh, the humanity! According to USA Today, looming sequestration is forcing the US Air...
