President Obama this week defined his "red line" for the Syria conflict, warning that if the Syrian government's chemical and biological weapons are moved around or utilized, this would "change" his "calculus," which has so far been to abstain from any direct military...
In the wake of the Sikh temple massacre by a US Army soldier earlier this month, news that warrior racists are infiltrating America's armed forces: They call it 'rahowa' - short for racial holy war - and they are preparing for it by joining the ranks of the world's...
"Since the disappearance of the Soviet Union," writes James Dobbins at RAND Corp., "China has become America's default adversary, the power against which the United States measures itself militarily, at least when there is no more proximate enemy in sight." I know...
From Foreign Affairs: According to UN investigations, in 2011, extremist settlers launched almost 300 attacks on Palestinian property, causing over 100 Palestinian casualties and destroying or damaging about 10,000 trees of Palestinian farmers. The UN has also...
With the drum beat for war on Iran intensifying in recent weeks, the question seems to come down to whether or not Israel is bluffing about their implied military strike on Iran before the November presidential elections in the US. Al-Monitor yesterday interviewed...
Former CIA analyst and Antiwar.com contributor Ray McGovern spoke with Business Insider about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hankering to bomb Iran and why "delaying Iran's nuclear capabilities is not the primary concern of a military strike, but simply...
In Foreign Affairs, Alexander Cooley writes about how a less unipolar world is prompting competition for foreign expansion among the great powers, particularly the US, Russia, and China in the Central Asian countries. And it means the American Empire is costing a lot...
Featured in our Viewpoints section yesterday, Anand Gopal writes at Harper's Magazine about how the media have uncritically accepted the word of the US-backed rebel fighters in Syria in order to create "a simple and self-serving narrative" about the murderous Assad...
In June, a group of academics from around Latin America plus the US wrote a letter to the State Department railing against the US military presence in Honduras and demanding that aid to the country's abusive law enforcement apparatus be halted. They exposed the drug...
