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The controversy, arising out of the drone war, that President Obama has the authority to assassinate US citizens abroad in non-war zones just got even more disgraceful. The Obama administration's Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter in response to persistent...

US officials did something unprecedented last night, formally denying that they were behind a pair of drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas. Officials rarely claim credit in the first place, but to officially deny them is unheard of, especially with the...

News broke this week that Israeli bus company Afikim began running "Palestinian-only" buses to transport West Bank Palestinian workers into Israel, reportedly because Israeli settlers complained about having to ride the bus with Arabs. See Mondoweiss for details on...

US political leaders and media pundits trumpet North Korea's recent testing of missiles and nuclear weapons as a great threat. But the US mass media do not tell the whole story. Without the context of history and current events, the actions of North Korea look insane,...

See here for the background of the UK investigations of "terrifying acts of brutality" by British troops in Iraq. We all know the stories from Abu Ghraib. And see here and here for some of the details about US-sanctioned torture that the WikiLeaks cables revealed.

White House Denounces Dennis Rodman No, seriously, they did. The White House issued a whole statement condemning the Dennis Rodman visit to North Korea, and North Korea for allowing him to visit, insisting "celebrity sporting events" of this kind are unacceptable. The...

Secretary of State John Kerry stopped off in Saudi Arabia on Monday to stand united in the name of democracy in Syria. The Associated Press called it "a united front," reporting that Kerry and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal "warned Syrian President...

In anticipation for his book release next month, Vali Nasr is publishing harsh critiques of the Obama administration's foreign policy (see earlier ones here and here). Nasr was at the State Department in Obama's first term working on Afghanistan and Pakistan under...

Less than a week. That's how long it took for Hagel to start toeing the Obama line on sequestration, contradicting his now infamous prior statement that the Pentagon is "bloated" and "needs to be pared down." Antiwar voices that got excited over Hagel's nomination...