From the Washington Post, news that the Obama administration completely lied about the killing of bin Laden being in self-defense: Bin Laden apparently was shot in the head when he looked out of his bedroom door into the top-floor hallway of his compound as SEALs...
The calls for intervening more directly in the Syrian conflict continue to make headlines. But the reasons to stay out of it - ranging from the strategic and logistical to the legal and moral - are as numerous as the options for intervention. A recent Op-Ed from...
Via Secrecy News: “In worldwide arms transfer agreements in 2011 — to both developed and developing nations — the United States dominated, ranking first with $66.3 billion in such agreements or 77.7% of all such agreements. This is the highest single year agreements...
This just in: “The Republican National Convention seating chart, obtained by POLITICO Sunday, shows the delegations from Nevada, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota and Oklahoma all located on the outer fringe of the convention floor. Each are states with significant Paul...
Grover Norquist continues to gently unwrap the fiscal hypocrisy of the hawks in this interview with the Cato Institute. More on cutting the military budget here.
President Obama this week defined his "red line" for the Syria conflict, warning that if the Syrian government's chemical and biological weapons are moved around or utilized, this would "change" his "calculus," which has so far been to abstain from any direct military...
In the wake of the Sikh temple massacre by a US Army soldier earlier this month, news that warrior racists are infiltrating America's armed forces: They call it 'rahowa' - short for racial holy war - and they are preparing for it by joining the ranks of the world's...
"Since the disappearance of the Soviet Union," writes James Dobbins at RAND Corp., "China has become America's default adversary, the power against which the United States measures itself militarily, at least when there is no more proximate enemy in sight." I know...
Julian Assange's successful bid for asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and the British threats to raid the embassy bring about some interesting questions about the history of being granted asylum inside an embassy. The 1961 Vienna Convention theoretically...
From Foreign Affairs: According to UN investigations, in 2011, extremist settlers launched almost 300 attacks on Palestinian property, causing over 100 Palestinian casualties and destroying or damaging about 10,000 trees of Palestinian farmers. The UN has also...
