In Foreign Affairs, Michael Bröning makes an impressively weak case for directly arming the Syrian rebels. He acknowledges the unfortunate fact that aid and weapons from Arab Gulf states have "primarily reached the more extreme groups," but claims that the new...
The US is going to "substantially increase its military presence in the Philippines, increasing the number of troops, aircraft and ships which routinely rotate through the country," according to The Diplomat. For what purpose? Well, the transparent excuse US officials...
Since the election, President Obama has again embarked on the Washington establishment's version of diplomatic coercion on Iran. It's sometimes referred to as "dual-track." Negotiations and a supposed grand bargain are in the works, but the administration continues to...
Apparently there is controversy, even among like-minded non-interventionists, over Chuck Hagel's rumored nomination to be Obama's next Secretary of Defense. On the one hand, non-interventionists are excited by Hagel's potential nomination to one of the highest offices...
Last week President Obama issued a letter to Congress informing them of ongoing US troop deployments for combat operations around the world. "Since October 7, 2001, the United States has conducted combat operations in Afghanistan against al-Qa'ida terrorists, their...
See here, here and here for a sample of my previous writing on Mexico and the drug war.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: "President Barack Obama has chosen Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to be the next secretary of state, a source has told Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed.His replacement as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be Sen....
With the news that UN Ambassador Susan Rice, after taking disproportionate heat from the GOP over her comments on the September 11th Benghazi attack, has withdrawn her name from consideration for Obama's nomination for Secretary of State, rumors of nominating former...
The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) amounts to a sweeping database housing information and surveillance records of people the government suspects have ties to terrorism. It is a horrendous monstrosity of Orwellian proportions. And it just got worse. As a...
The New York Times published an article yesterday detailing how top former US officials who helped spearhead the Clinton administration's bombing of Serbia in 1999 are now deeply embedded in lucrative rent-seeking activities with Kosovo's corrupt semi-government....
