Via Electronic Intifada: This is an area of intense Israeli settlement activity, where some villages, such as Susya, have been ordered totally destroyed by the occupation forces. Video shot by Operation Dove (website) shows bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli...
It seems very odd to me that this CNN reporter Pentagon spokesperson can say with a straight face that Iran fired unprovoked. Just imagine how Washington would respond to Iranian drones flying over US airspace.
Probably the most dominant rhetorical pitch thrown about by politicians and media pundits regarding defense cuts is that they will cost the country much-needed jobs. Actually, the number of jobs in the military industrial complex that would be lost as a result of the...
In 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aimed to provoke Iran into a war with Israel that would eventually drag in the United States. Yossi Melman at Al-Monitor: The truth is that Netanyahu and Barak did not order the military to plan a direct, all-out...
Not even a full day had passed before newly reelected President Obama ordered another drone strike in Yemen. A U.S. drone strike targeted a group of al-Qaida militants on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday night, killing at least three terrorists,...
Many are excited today about President Obama's reelection. But not everybody. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ain't so happy, according to Haaretz: "The prime minister won’t soon forget the night of November 6. It started with the election of his ex-bureau...
Grover Norquist in Foreign Affairs railing against the suggestion that taxes be raised: Despite these strict [constitutional] limits, the U.S. federal government has grown enormously in size, cost, and power over the last two centuries, mostly as a result of the...
The election is today. Invariably thrown around at these times are platitudes about our great nation and the people's decision giving divine mandate to the victor. In the fog of this rhetoric it's difficult to remember that the election is really about ushering in...
Joshua Landis - who was consistently against US intervention in Syria before he was for sending in heavy weapons to rebels - writes that the Obama administration's latest effort to set up a new council of Syrian opposition leaders to organize the country towards...
“Don’t treat China as an enemy. Otherwise you end up with an enemy in China.” Those are the words of former Chinese diplomat Jia Xiudong. And they reflect the thinking in the Chinese government, as best we can tell. They don't appreciate Obama's "pivot" to Asia, a...
