The US continues to militarize much of Latin America, spending enormous amounts of cash in order to prop up obedient regimes, train armies and militias, build new military bases, deploy more troops, and keep the military industrial complex fat and happy. "In the most...
Among the many statements Chuck Hagel meekly recanted during his confirmation hearings last week was his comment that there is “no justification for Israel to keep the Palestinians caged up like animals.” Republican Senator Mike Lee asked Hagel if he stood by that...
Sen. Menendez of New Jersey, the chairman of the Sen. Foreign Relations Committee, is under investigation for his trips to the Dominican Republic. There are allegations that he was diddling very young hookers there - which could be a crime under a U.S. law which...
Politico reports: Fifty-three percent of Americans believe the government is a threat, and 43 percent do not, according to a Pew Research Center poll. Three-in-ten Americans believe government constitutes a major threat. In a poll conducted October 2003, only 45...
Micah Zenko is betting that the latest UN investigation into drone killings by the United States "is unlikely to compel increased transparency from the Obama administration." Essentially, this is because similar investigations have been going on for about ten years...
From The Independent: Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. According to Haaretz, "while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they...
After 13 failed appeals, a Guatemalan court on Monday ordered 86-year-old former US-backed dictator Efrain Rios Montt to face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. "Prosecutors allege Rios Montt, who ruled as commander-in-chief for 17 months, turned a blind...
Did Israeli government officials aggressively promote an unsubstantiated story about an explosion at an Iranian nuclear facility? According to Ali Gharib at The Daily Beast, yes. He writes that it is "an object lesson that shows just how far some press—and even...
"Won't you give up your 'assault weapon' so that poor African children won't have to do without? After all, shouldn't African children have the same right to kill for U.S. interests as American women?" This cartoon & caption courtesy of Tom Blanton, the mastermind...
From Frank Brodhead of Concerned Families of Westchester: As President Obama puts his new national security team into place, the likelihood is increasing that no meaningful negotiations about Iran’s nuclear policy will take place before Iran’s presidential election in...
