This would seem to bring 'leading from behind' to a brand new level. ABC News: Reporting from Bamako, Mali’s capital, ABC News correspondent Bazi Kanani reported Monday that the U.S. Air Force C-17 brought in several dozen French troops, equipment and vehicles. ...
Interest groups have always tried to influence the state for their own unearned benefit. Despite what idealists in this country would like to believe, going back to the founding of the United States, immediately following the end of the Revolutionary War, everyone...
Prisoners in Afghanistan continue to be tortured and abused in detention facilities under Afghan control and Afghanistan's spy agency is operating secret prisons to avoid international scrutiny, according to a United Nations report released on Sunday. The UN...
New York Times: “The French, who are so gloomy and pessimistic about the situation in the country and the economy, have at least one reason to be proud of what their country can achieve,” Jean-David Levitte, the diplomatic adviser to former President Nicolas Sarkozy...
Worth remembering on MLK day is his vehement opposition to the ruthless American terrorism in Indochina. He called it "the destruction of Vietnam." Hear and read his famous speech, delivered on April 4, 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside...
Marc Lynch at Foreign Policy responds to the criticism that earlier US intervention in Syria would have prevented the hopeless bloodbath there: Advocates of intervention frequently complain that the United States could have prevented this fiasco through earlier, more...
A year ago, the video of US Marines urinating on Afghan corpses surfaced on the internet and shocked most viewers. This week, in the trial proceedings for the Marines' court-martial, it was revealed that the viral video was one of 12 such videos investigators found...
Today is the 52nd anniversary of what is perhaps the most important and prophetic farewell address of any US president. Eisenhower's warning of the unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex in the councils of government was sound advice, although sadly...
Conn Hallinan has an important piece at Foreign Policy in Focus called Militarizing Latin America: Four More Years. Excerpt: As it has in Africa and Asia, the Obama administration has militarized its foreign policy vis-à-vis Latin America. Washington has spread a...
One of the central demands of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in order for him to keep playing ball with the US, was to gain full control over all Afghan prisons after US forces drawdown in 2014. The Obama administration reluctantly agreed to this demand and has been...
