Bill Keller's piece in The New York Times yesterday got a lot of attention, and for all the right reasons. The absurdity of the piece wasn't lost on most people: Keller lays out how terribly wrong he was for supporting the Bush administration's war of choice in Iraq,...
On Friday, Israel attacked Syria. On Sunday, they launched multiple additional attacks, destroying several military targets in the Syrian capital city of Damascus and killing 42 people. Today (Monday), Israel has filed an official complaint to the United Nations after...
Director Kathryn Bigelow's cinematic valentine to dogged CIA sisters doin' it and taking out Osama Bin Laden for themselves, Zero Dark Thirty, was controversial long before it was released last December. Initially there were rumors the film would be released two...
Bolivian President Evo Morales recently announced he has expelled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), saying such "institutions" "continue to conspire." USAID, thanks to lots of propaganda, is thought to be a wonderful, almost charitable...
Reports from May 1 protests around the US, particularly in Seattle, may look disturbingly familiar to anyone worried about police militarization. To be fair, this outlet suggests Seattle saw a contingent of aggressive marchers and rioters who were determined to...
A recent New York Times article ascribing the label "isolationist" to those skeptical of military intervention in Syria and North Korea has generated a flurry of commentary about the overall foreign policy debate. Matt Duss summarizes the controversy well: Ask...
There are rumors going around that President Obama "is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the Syrian opposition," although he has said no such thing publicly. Nevertheless, the rumors are sparking a new debate on the wisdom of directly arming the Syrian rebels. I...
Nietzsche is incorrectly often associated with fascism, especially Nazism. When he descended into insanity, his sister Elizabeth took control of his works and selectively edited them to support the Third Reich. This is a shame, because Nietzche wrote many prescient...
President Obama this week defended the US's policy of force feeding detainees in Guantanamo Bay who are protesting their due process-free indefinite detention by going on a hunger strike. On Wednesday, UN human rights officials declared that force feeding amounts to...
In the past few days, two different Atlantic writers have worried that drones are a "sexy" subject which often overshadow other issues. Now, Andrew Cohen's article isn't really about war or drones. It's a reminder that it's not only Anwar al-Awlaki who didn't get due...
