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...
In an article at Der Speigel entitled "Leaving Corruptistan," Susanne Koelbl reflects on what we're left with after eleven years of war in Afghanistan: A state with a security apparatus that might be strong enough to at best hold the Taliban halfway in check. A...
During his confirmation process to become Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel delivered a slip of the tongue when describing his support for the Obama administration's policy of "containment" of Iran. With cameras rolling and Senators ready to pounce, somebody passed...
Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that the first ever CIA drone strike in Pakistan was not aimed at an al-Qaeda operative plotting to attack the US or US forces in Afghanistan, but rather targeted a man the Pakistani government didn't like. Mr. [Nek]...
