The pressure for Washington to add more heft to their support for the Syrian rebels is heating up again. Secretary of State John Kerry announced today that the US will, in what Reuters describes as "for the first time" send "non-lethal aid" directly to Syrian rebels...
At the Daily Beast's Open Zion blog, Yousef Munayyer responds to the recent gossip about another impending Palestinian uprising, or intifada. Any single incident of abuse could be the spark, he writes. Just to name a few off the top of his head: There was the killing...
There are at least two ways to evaluate the US's policy of sweeping economic sanctions on Iran. The first is to take the stated aim of the sanctions - what US officials claim is their purpose - and assess their efficacy. In this case, US officials claim the purpose of...
This 1965 New Yorker cartoon - from the dawn of the era of Vietnam War protests - captures the danger of leaving peace to the experts. Daniel Ellsberg was inspired by some of those anti-war protests. I did a piece for the Future of Freedom Foundation in 2008 on...
Let's hope that newly minted Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will live up to some of our expectations and not be afraid to tell it like it is. Let's start with Afghanistan. We just found out today that an alleged data entry glitch in the Pentagon program that spits...
The Cato Institute has posted this graphic putting the impending automatic defense cuts in context: See here and here for more Antiwar.com coverage of sequestration.
Allen Ruff and I have written extensively about Kazakhstan and about the typical hypocrisy at-play in the kleptocratic country. We published an article in the aftermath of the Zhanaozen Massacre about the U.S. imperial Great Game being played in Kazakhstan and Central...
From the beginning of the Obama administration's savage economic sanctions on Iran, Antiwar.com has been highlighting the humanitarian costs of such policies. The sanctions are not only undermining the Iranian economy in the form of high unemployment, inflation, etc....
One unfortunate consequence of the heroic work of WikiLeaks to uncover government crimes was that it prompted the government to be even more radical in their classification procedures and their crackdown on whistleblowers. The good news is that excessive secrecy is...
Senator Rand Paul is not the only one with serious questions about the nomination of John Brennan for CIA Director! Many people are rightly concerned that the CIA Nominee failed to provide a clear answer to Paul's question: "Do you believe that the president has the...
