This Week's Top News: Western Diplomats: Iran Talks Made Progress: Iranian officials had expressed similar optimism about the talks, calling them a major turning point and saying that for basically the first time in years of talks Western nations seem interested in...
Governments survive on myth. Truth is dangerous. As Chief Nazi "Information Officer" Goebbels put it, "...the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." While the main stream media averts its eyes,...
In recent months, a number of essays have been written by some of the most prominent scholars in international relations, all on the same topic: US grand strategy. The question that these scholars have sought to address is whether the US should adopt a more restrained...
You want an illustration of how devastatingly draconian the impending defense budget cuts are going to be? Try this on for size: no more military jets flying over sporting events. Oh, the humanity! According to USA Today, looming sequestration is forcing the US Air...
Douglas Bloomfield at The Jewish Week informs us that 13,000 lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will descend upon Capitol Hill this weekend for their annual conference to order members of Congress not to cut $3 billion-plus in aid to...
Today is the 20th anniversary of the ATF’s attack on the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. National Guard helicopters played a key role in the initial attack; 51 days later, Army tanks would lead the final assault. I thought Waco might be the most important public...
Antiwar.com's editorial director Justin Raimondo will be the keynote speaker at the California Convention of the Republican Liberty Caucus, Saturday, March 2 in Sacramento. This event is being held as a break-out from the state convention of the California Republican...
The pressure for Washington to add more heft to their support for the Syrian rebels is heating up again. Secretary of State John Kerry announced today that the US will, in what Reuters describes as "for the first time" send "non-lethal aid" directly to Syrian rebels...
At the Daily Beast's Open Zion blog, Yousef Munayyer responds to the recent gossip about another impending Palestinian uprising, or intifada. Any single incident of abuse could be the spark, he writes. Just to name a few off the top of his head: There was the killing...
There are at least two ways to evaluate the US's policy of sweeping economic sanctions on Iran. The first is to take the stated aim of the sanctions - what US officials claim is their purpose - and assess their efficacy. In this case, US officials claim the purpose of...
