It may sound melodramatic but one of the most tragic examples of blowback from our terror war in Pakistan is that the Taliban there are now trying to prevent Pakistani children from getting the polio vaccine, which has been available to Americans since the 1950's and...
In case you've been asleep for the whole of Barack Obama's first term, here's one fundamental doctrine that has proven itself to guide his administration: if the President does it, it's not illegal. Mostly that has been true in the realm of secret war, indefinite...
For drone war advocates, the legitimacy of the targeted killing program rests on the notion that those targets pose a threat to America and US troops in neighboring Afghanistan. The AUMF and the principle of "imminence" supposedly form the legal basis of the drone...
From the Bill of Rights Defense Committee: Today, April 11 come out in support for a Day of Action Against Guantanamo. Detained men are on hunger strike, putting their lives on the line for the change that President Obama promised four years ago. We can't let...
In a discussion at The New York Times, Kate Doyle, a senior analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive, delivers a strong critique of one of America's greatest pastimes: arming and training foreign militias, often to bolster brutal...
Washington hasn't given up on repressing the Egyptian people: A shipment of teargas canisters from the United States arrived at the Abadeya Port in Suez on Sunday, according to official documents obtained by Al-Masry Al-Youm. Five containers carrying 140,000 teargas...
One notable little nugget from Mark Mazzetti's latest piece in The New York Times is the following, which gives added weight to warnings of blowback resulting from the Obama administration's drone war: ...the map of Islamic militancy inside Pakistan had been redrawn...
Glenn Greenwald has posted a good interview he conducted with Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett, authors of the recent book Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Scott Horton also interviewed the two on their book...
Jay-Z and Beyoncé are with the terrorists. Actually they're with Barack Obama, which allows them the privilege of going on vacation in "enemy country" - something ordinary Americans are forbidden to do by Uncle Sam. Ed Krayewski: Jay-Z and Beyoncé visited Cuba for...
In an Op-Ed at The Boston Globe, Thanassis Cambanis argues one reason the Obama administration hasn't directly intervened militarily in Syria is because the long, drawn out conflict hurts America's geo-political competitors. The war is also becoming a sinkhole for...
