After a very lengthy legal process, "former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty on Friday of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country's 36-year civil war," Reuters reports. Montt came to power in Guatemala in a...
Aryn Baker at TIME reports on a video out of Syria depicting the savagery of rebel commander Khalid al-Hamad: The video starts out like so many of the dozens coming out of the war in Syria every day, with the camera hovering over the body of a dead Syrian soldier. But...
When considering the likelihood of increased U.S. intervention in Syria, it's useful to try to gauge the opinions of people in positions of policymaking and power. I've noted several times the Obama administration's demonstrated reluctance to get further involved in...
Pakistan holds elections on Saturday. More than 70 people have been killed nationwide in pre-election violence. It is encouraging that Pakistani High Court Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan issued a ruling on Thursday declaring US drone strikes in tribal areas in...
Here is an NPR segment featuring a former Air Force pilot who operated drones. He describes targeting and killing people he thinks were civilians, or at least not a threat. He describes bombing a man running away, and when the smoke cleared saw the man get his leg...
The central defense of the Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi attacks last year is that they shouldn't be blamed for making so many inaccurate statements about it being a spontaneous protest against an insulting video rather than a premeditated terrorist...
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, Thomas E. Ricks, meet David Sirota. Sirota, meet the other three people in the United States who regret the 40 years of conscription-free living Americans have enjoyed. Over at Salon, Sirota, a liberal author and...
It's pretty clear at this point that the Obama administration explicitly misrepresented what they knew to be the truth about the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. In...
Writing at Time magazine in response to an article by John McCain advocating US intervention in Syria, Zbigniew Brzezinski - not exactly a peacenik - argues that "the Syrian conflict is a sectarian war in a volatile region whose potential to spread and directly...
