One of the biggest problems (and there are many) with the Obama administration's drone program is that it targets unidentified individuals, the vast majority of whom have not been shown to present any real threat to Americans. According to the recent academic study,...
Friday brought another report of the civil war in Syria by Kelly McEvers of NPR’s Morning Edition. The opening summary tells us that rebels “captured a third major border crossing between Syria and Turkey. The rebels are trying to restore services to a recently...
In a new piece at Foreign Policy, Ammar Abdulhamid meticulously describes how fundamentally disparate, disorganized, and divided are the Syrian rebels. He writes that although they all want the overthrow of Assad, there is no unified goal as to what ought to come...
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The Obama administration has fought tooth and nail to keep the details of its surveillance activities hidden from the public. For years it has insisted that its snooping on Americans' phone and email communications fell perfectly within the law (that is, the extremely...
Charlie Savage in the New York Times, Election May Decide When Interrogation Amounts to Torture: In one of his first acts, President Obama issued an executive order restricting interrogators to a list of nonabusive tactics approved in theArmy Field Manual. Even as he...
In the news section today, it has been revealed through declassified documents that WikiLeaks Julian Assange has been designated an enemy of the state by the US military, a legal classification also assigned to al-Qaeda and which could allow Washington to kill or...
This heartbreaking trailer gives a short preview of the new documentary "Tears of Gaza," from the Norwegian director, Vibeke Løkkeberg. The film will premier at the Varsity Theater in Davis, CA on September 30th, and it documents the bombing of Gaza in 2008 – 2009 by...
On Friday, Patrick Clawson, the director of research at the pro-Israel think-tank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, suggested that the US should work covertly and through international means of force to provoke Iran to take the first shot against the US...
Many in official Washington are expressing outrage over suspicions that Iraq is allowing neighboring Iran to use its airspace to fly military equipment to the Syrian regime. Iraq has denied the allegations and asked the US to provide proof that the flights contain...
