In recent weeks, conservative media and politicians have been up in arms over a speech Hagel allegedly gave to the group "Friends of Hamas." Hagel is paling around with terrorists! they cried. But according to Dan Friedman, a reporter with the New York Daily News, the...
A new report from the Center for a New American Security says that "the conventional wisdom" about how a nuclear Iran would spark a dangerous nuclear arms race in the Middle East "is probably wrong." "It is widely assumed that Saudi Arabia would respond to Iran’s...
apparatchik noun 1. A member of a Communist apparat. 2. An unquestioningly loyal subordinate, especially of a political leader or organization House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) thinks we'd be asking too much of Obama if we demanded the President publicly...
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow recently aired an hour-long special about the Bush administration's lies that got us into Iraq. For most of our readers, this will undoubtedly be review (especially if you've seen the PBS documentary Bush's War, which is just a more detailed...
This cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker perfectly nails the absurd presumptions behind Obama's drone policy.
One of the most prevalent criticisms of Obama's foreign policy on Iran is that he appeased those conniving mullahs and allowed them to charge full speed ahead on a nuclear weapons program. This is the type of critique you hear from establishment DC think-tanks,...
Last week, the Military Times ran a report based on statements from James Williams, the man from the Federal Aviation Administration that is "in charge of integrating unmanned aircraft into US airspace." The story had an encouraging headline: "No Armed Drones in US...
Electronic Intifada with the backstory: This disturbing image shows the back of the head of a child or young man as seen in the crosshairs of a rifle. The photo was posted on the personal Instagram account of Mor Ostrovski, a 20-year old Israeli soldier in a sniper...
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During John Brennan's Senate confirmation hearings last week, Senator Susan Collins asked him about whether the drone strikes in Pakistan are "creating a backlash" and "creating new terrorists when a neighbor or family member is killed in the course of the...
