Afghan President Hamid Karzai is being depicted in the media as an obstinate spoiler who is sabotaging America's plans for a decade or more of continued U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan by refusing to sign a status of forces agreement (SOFA) governing future...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), the leaders of the Senate and House Intelligence committees respectively, went on CNN's Sunday talk show yesterday to put fear into the hearts of Americans. They told us we are in more danger now than ever and...
Following the 2009 military coup in Honduras, the U.S. expanded aid and security cooperation with the new hard-right government and heaped legitimacy on the regime despite steadily increasing human rights abuses. This week, Honduras had an election that many...
One of the four emerging myths about the Iran-P5+1 deal has reached a fever pitch. Turn on basically any network news channel and you'll hear it propagated again and again: Iran got too much sanctions relief! People are even saying this deal asked too much of the P5+1...
The deal reached between Iran and the P5+1 is top news today and probably much of this week. In one of the few instances of a media buzz word accurately describing a major news event, I do think the agreement, although simply an interim deal, is historic. It wasn't...
The P5+1 and Iran are in Geneva negotiating the details of a first-phase deal on Tehran's nuclear program. In the last round of talks, France scuttled the deal all other parties had reportedly agreed upon, citing Iran's Arak heavy water reactor as a proliferation...
Israel's blockade of Gaza has long been known for it's cruel results in strangling the population. But two recent happenings - namely Egypt's destruction of Gaza's smuggling tunnels and Israel's decision ratchet up the blockade by blocking construction materials -...
Here's an uncomfortable reality: the Obama administration's decision to recommit to the war in Afghanistan and surge U.S. military forces in his first term was made largely to allow for continued U.S. drone attacks in neighboring Pakistan. The hundreds of billions of...
Last week I wrote about the potential for the Obama administration's Asia-Pivot strategy to inflame anti-colonialist sentiment. I lamented that Washington tries simply to get around this popular opposition to the military surge in East Asia instead of acknowledging...
For those who have been following U.S.-Israel-Iran relations, the one certainty we've come to expect is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will say all kinds of things that aren't true in order to shift the balance away from peaceful diplomacy and towards...
