Mitt Romney "won" the debate the other night by doing what he has always done: altering his views to fit whatever situation he is in. Much of the media and the public were apparently drawn to Romney's slick rhetoric that made him appear ready to make deep cuts in...
Hey, did you know Afghans are killing US soldiers because they so desperately want us to continue occupying their country? That is the rather absurd argument in a piece run by Foreign Policy by Felisa "Farzana" Dyrud, a former US Air Force officer. Dyrud says that,...
There is something of a consensus forming around the conclusion that a preventive US and/or Israeli attack on Iran (for a nuclear weapons program it doesn't have) is the wrong thing to do. Last night former Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke at an event warning "the...
George Farah, founder and executive director of Open Debates, tells Democracy Now that the two parties impose rules on the debates "to control various components of the debates to eliminate both third party candidates, unpredictable questions, and any threat to their...
In a press briefing yesterday with State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland, an unusual question was asked about the morality of the US-led sanctions regime on Iran, which is primarily hurting the population. QUESTION: Do you have any concern about the effects –...
One of the biggest problems (and there are many) with the Obama administration's drone program is that it targets unidentified individuals, the vast majority of whom have not been shown to present any real threat to Americans. According to the recent academic study,...
In a new piece at Foreign Policy, Ammar Abdulhamid meticulously describes how fundamentally disparate, disorganized, and divided are the Syrian rebels. He writes that although they all want the overthrow of Assad, there is no unified goal as to what ought to come...
The Obama administration has fought tooth and nail to keep the details of its surveillance activities hidden from the public. For years it has insisted that its snooping on Americans' phone and email communications fell perfectly within the law (that is, the extremely...
Charlie Savage in the New York Times, Election May Decide When Interrogation Amounts to Torture: In one of his first acts, President Obama issued an executive order restricting interrogators to a list of nonabusive tactics approved in theArmy Field Manual. Even as he...
In the news section today, it has been revealed through declassified documents that WikiLeaks Julian Assange has been designated an enemy of the state by the US military, a legal classification also assigned to al-Qaeda and which could allow Washington to kill or...
