From The Independent: Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. According to Haaretz, "while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they...
After 13 failed appeals, a Guatemalan court on Monday ordered 86-year-old former US-backed dictator Efrain Rios Montt to face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. "Prosecutors allege Rios Montt, who ruled as commander-in-chief for 17 months, turned a blind...
Did Israeli government officials aggressively promote an unsubstantiated story about an explosion at an Iranian nuclear facility? According to Ali Gharib at The Daily Beast, yes. He writes that it is "an object lesson that shows just how far some press—and even...
Marc Lynch's new column at Foreign Policy explores the contradiction in Washington's rhetoric of democracy and reform with its active support for tyranny and repression in Saudi Arabia and the surrounding Gulf states. This is an old narrative. Yes, there is a...
In his Senate confirmation hearings to be the next Secretary of State, Senator John Kerry declared US foreign policy "is not defined by drones and deployments alone," as he tried to emphasize humanitarian assistance and development projects instead of American...
The unprecedentedly harsh economic sanctions regime Washington has imposed on Iran "really has reached its end," according to Vali Nasr, Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Nasr, born in Tehran, is well within the...
The Obama administration's diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear program is in shambles. In the broadest terms, this is because the so-called diplomatic opening Obama initiated upon coming into office never actually happened; Washington has been more apt to continue to...
Washington claims its only direct involvement in France's military intervention in Mali includes the US Air Force flying in French soldiers and 124 tons of equipment. Beyond that, the Pentagon will only admit vaguely to "intelligence support." Whether the US is flying...
