People involved in politics almost invariably engage in confirmation bias. It's easy to welcome ideas that bolster what you already believe, than to deal with facts and evidence that seem to puncture your own opinions. If there are two seasoned politicians in...
Antiwar.com columnist/reporter Kelley Vlahos appeared on Russia Today's Crosstalk program today. The subject was blowback triggered by Western-supported Kenya intervention in Somalia. Also on the show were occasional Antiwar.com contributor Stephen Zunes and Richard...
At the Pike County Justice Court in Mississippi, Judge Aubrey Rimes expelled Mr. Jageet Singh from the courtroom, telling his attorney that he'd better remove "that rag" (his turban) from his head or go to jail. That sounds bad enough, right? But how'd he get into the...
The diplomacy with Iran is proceeding slowly in the days following the almost-handshake at the UN earlier this week. While skepticism is warranted, as I've written, there is a chorus of right-wing fear-mongers really upset about the prospect of detente with Iran. See,...
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...
