Children tend to have a tough time focusing on too many ideas at once. The same goes for adults who have the brain capacity of children. Syria stories obviously soared in the media over the past month, and rightly so given that the Obama administration was going drag...
Ideally, the question of whether it's wise for America to support allegedly "moderate" elements within the Syrian opposition should have been settled when thousands of foreign fighters were reported flooding into Syria for "jihad." Or maybe when rebels were caught...
Human Rights Watch: Israeli military forces should cease actions in a West Bank Bedouin community that were apparently intended to displace the residents without lawful justification. The military demolished all homes in the community on September 16, 2013, and...
Mark Landler is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Under the title "Through Diplomacy, Obama Finds a Pen Pal in Iran", Landler wrote of President Barack Obama’s deep "belief in the power of the written word," and of his...
In a discussion on NPR's Morning Edition yesterday, host Steve Inskeep asked Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, an important question regarding the massacre in Kenya by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab: INSKEEP: Is there a...
The U.S. and Iranian presidents are probably going to meet face to face at the U.N. today. "They may even shake hands, " CNN reports. This would be pretty significant given the history of enmity between these two nations and it would follow several weeks of what cable...
Human rights and health observers have been waiting a year for the results of a World Health Organization/Iraqi Health Ministry study that would, at last, shed some "official" light on a problem that local doctors and journalists have been reporting for years: that a...
The crux of why the Obama administration's Asia-Pivot strategy is reckless and stupid is contained in the first question and answer of Foreign Policy's interview with Japan's Defense Minister, Itsunori Onodera. Foreign Policy: What kind of commitment has the United...
Back in May, former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Ríos Montt was convicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in an historic case, the first time a former head of state had been prosecuted for genocide by his own country. Ten days after his...
On August 31, Antiwar.com reprinted an article from Mint Press News: "Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack." We originally linked to it, but then reprinted on our site at the request of Mint Press because traffic on their site was...
