The feeling that a U.S./Israeli strike on Iran is inescapably imminent has waxed and waned over the last few months. As soon as the feeling of impending war begins to dissipate, hawks in Washington and Tel Aviv step up the warnings of preemptive strike. They will...
Brian Dooley, of Human Rights First, on Bahrain: They said they had been severely beaten by the police in the previous two days. "They beat us until they got tired, then other policemen would take over and beat us more," said one boy. Such beatings have become...
The questions of whether or not to continue sending military aid to Egypt briefly occupied the power centers in Washington last week. Some in the Senate argued it isn't good to aid undemocratic regimes who harm their own people. And then it was remembered that such...
Two videos emerged this weekend that are worth highlighting. The first is apparently a rare look into a warantless night raid by Israeli forces in the West Bank. The other video is of an Israeli "mob attack by hundreds of Israeli football fans on Arab workers and...
State doctrine holds that soldiers are intrinsically honorable. It is a conviction held by most of the public that those who wear a military uniform are to receive automatic society-wide praise for their service, irrespective of who they are or what they've done. If...
Something like 600,000 civilians were killed in America's 11-year secret bombing campaign in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. From 1964 - 1975, the U.S. rained giant explosives from the sky, destroying the country and leading to the terrible Khmer Rouge, an...
At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and more than 70 wounded in Israel's latest set of airstrikes in Gaza. The vast majority of these casualties have been civilians. By contrast, three Israeli civilians have been wounded by rocket fire. In response to this, the...
The scorched corpse this Afghan woman is sitting next to is that of an Afghan boy, her grandson, slaughtered and burned by the U.S. sergeant on Sunday. This is one of 16 civilians killed. See my piece from yesterday on the massacre and the history of letting murderers...
The conflict with Iran is framed as a conflict over nuclear proliferation. So important is it, we are told, that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, that we could risk war and death and suffering and trillions of dollars to prevent it. But the story gets bizarre after...
