Has the US Set a March Deadline for War on Iran?
Last month the US issued an ultimatum to Iran, demanding it fully cooperate with the IAEA by March or else face further action and possible measures at the UN Security Council. Micah Zenko, fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, speculates that this "could...
US Military Says Killing Afghan Children Is Fair Game
In October, the US launched an airstrike in Afghanistan that killed three children - ages 8, 10, and 12 -while they were gathering firewood (or by some accounts, dung to burn as fuel). NATO issued its usual dismissive statement, admitting it may have “accidentally...
Crimes in Yemen: Militancy, Regime Attacks, and US Drones
A new report from Amnesty International investigates human rights abuses by the militant group Ansar al-Sharia and by the Yemeni government during the 2011-2012 conflict in the country. The report provides further documentation of US drone strikes that hit civilians...
Will the UN Conference Put Government Hands on My Internet?
Here's a twisted-like-a-pretzel kind of sentiment: [British] Home Secretary Theresa May has warned that those opposing plans to let police monitor all internet use are "putting politics before people's lives." Ah yes, those unwilling to have government thugs snoop on...
Syria’s Rebellion Ain’t So Popular
The Syrian rebellion has never been a popular revolution, but now even some who advocated the demise of the Assad regime have begun to doubt the value of the brutal civil war and what it has done for Syria. McClatchy has a brilliant report on "Ebrahem," a Syrian...
On Syria’s Alleged Chemical Weapons and the Prospect for War
There was some bluster on Monday in response to reports that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad made the first step in weaponizing chemical stockpiles and also has moved them around to different locations in the country. In terms of US action, the conflict in Syria...
AP’s Iran Nonsense Getting Downright Adorable
So late last week when John Glaser took apart the latest scare piece from the Associated Press' George Jahn, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was mocking it as "amateurish and technically incorrect." I didn't personally notice that the graph was flawed on first...
Refusing to Acquiesce in Gaza
GAZA CITY - The past few days have been harrowing, yet still deeply inspiring in Gaza as people in the strip must carry on with their lives after the Israeli army’s deadly 8 day offensive operation "Pillar of Cloud" which killed at least 160 Palestinians and left over...
On Ehud Barak’s Way Out, Statements on Iran He Knows to Be Misleading
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says he's retiring. But on his way out, he has determined to make hysterical statements about a war on Iran which are totally divorced from reality and which contradict previous statements he's made regarding Iran's nuclear program....
