Since the election, President Obama has again embarked on the Washington establishment's version of diplomatic coercion on Iran. It's sometimes referred to as "dual-track." Negotiations and a supposed grand bargain are in the works, but the administration continues to...
Apparently there is controversy, even among like-minded non-interventionists, over Chuck Hagel's rumored nomination to be Obama's next Secretary of Defense. On the one hand, non-interventionists are excited by Hagel's potential nomination to one of the highest offices...
Last week President Obama issued a letter to Congress informing them of ongoing US troop deployments for combat operations around the world. "Since October 7, 2001, the United States has conducted combat operations in Afghanistan against al-Qa'ida terrorists, their...
See here, here and here for a sample of my previous writing on Mexico and the drug war.
With the news that UN Ambassador Susan Rice, after taking disproportionate heat from the GOP over her comments on the September 11th Benghazi attack, has withdrawn her name from consideration for Obama's nomination for Secretary of State, rumors of nominating former...
The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) amounts to a sweeping database housing information and surveillance records of people the government suspects have ties to terrorism. It is a horrendous monstrosity of Orwellian proportions. And it just got worse. As a...
The New York Times published an article yesterday detailing how top former US officials who helped spearhead the Clinton administration's bombing of Serbia in 1999 are now deeply embedded in lucrative rent-seeking activities with Kosovo's corrupt semi-government....
Charles Glass on Democracy Now talks about the Syrian conflict, the Islamist opposition, and Western threats about the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons. Of the latter, he says, "It sounds to me pretty much like the propaganda that was used prior to the invasion...
The massive - yet hidden - monstrosity that is the US government's warrantless surveillance powers are being met with some very limited push-back from a few members of Congress. A few Senators are trying to amend the FISA Amendments Act to make it more transparent,...
In the Shiite neighborhoods of Sitra in Bahrain, these posters are reportedly all over the place: The picture on the bottom right-hand corner is John Timoney, the ex-US police chief whose expertise was tapped by the US-backed Bahraini dictatorship to crack down more...
