From the newest issue of Foreign Affairs, How China Sees America by Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell has some valuable insights. The diplomatic relationship between the US and China has soured recently, due especially to President Obama's bellicosity in the Asia...
Foreign Policy reports there are "many Yemenis who have come to suspect that their government is not fighting, but helping cultivate, jihadi activity in their country." According to sources in Yemen's Interior Ministry and Defense Ministry, as well as independent...
The American Conservative's Jordon Bloom ran into a befuddled John Bolton at the Republican National Convention yesterday and had a timely question for him: He was on his way in to observe the speeches, and I knew he wouldn’t have much time to answer more than a...
The Economist has published interviews with ordinary Yemenis revealing what should be obvious - but clearly isn't in our Orwellian political world - that continuously bombing another country that we are not at war with tends to generate hatred and create new enemies....
The New York Times has a short documentary video (which they won't allow people to embed, so you must follow the link) directed by Laura Poitras about William Binney, the former NSA analyst and mathematician-turned whistleblower. Binney described details about Stellar...
Completely under the radar, Obama has sent 200 additional US Marines to Guatemala on another drug war adventure. Associated Press: A team of 200 U.S. Marines began patrolling Guatemala's western coast this week in an unprecedented operation to beat drug traffickers in...
Via, Mondoweiss, a new resolution passed by the California State Assembly attempts to limit criticism of Israeli policy on college campuses by equating it with anti-Semitic hate speech. The law urges "California colleges and universities to squelch nascent...
From the Washington Post, news that the Obama administration completely lied about the killing of bin Laden being in self-defense: Bin Laden apparently was shot in the head when he looked out of his bedroom door into the top-floor hallway of his compound as SEALs...
The calls for intervening more directly in the Syrian conflict continue to make headlines. But the reasons to stay out of it - ranging from the strategic and logistical to the legal and moral - are as numerous as the options for intervention. A recent Op-Ed from...
Via Secrecy News: “In worldwide arms transfer agreements in 2011 — to both developed and developing nations — the United States dominated, ranking first with $66.3 billion in such agreements or 77.7% of all such agreements. This is the highest single year agreements...
