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...
‘Ya Know Who’s Messianic? Netanyahu.’
With the drum beat for war on Iran intensifying in recent weeks, the question seems to come down to whether or not Israel is bluffing about their implied military strike on Iran before the November presidential elections in the US. Al-Monitor yesterday interviewed...
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Weakness
90 Days, 90 Reasons is a project conceived by author Dave Eggers to rekindle young(ish) America's romance with Barack Obama. Each day features a post by someone you might have seen in movies or heard on NPR. Today's post is by Reza Aslan, "an internationally acclaimed...
A Very, Very Dangerous Moment
Iran’s Nuclear Program Merely a Pretext
Former CIA analyst and Antiwar.com contributor Ray McGovern spoke with Business Insider about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hankering to bomb Iran and why "delaying Iran's nuclear capabilities is not the primary concern of a military strike, but simply...
America’s Empire of Bases Gets More Expensive
In Foreign Affairs, Alexander Cooley writes about how a less unipolar world is prompting competition for foreign expansion among the great powers, particularly the US, Russia, and China in the Central Asian countries. And it means the American Empire is costing a lot...
You Just Can’t Trust Them Syrian Rebels And Their Media Surrogates
Featured in our Viewpoints section yesterday, Anand Gopal writes at Harper's Magazine about how the media have uncritically accepted the word of the US-backed rebel fighters in Syria in order to create "a simple and self-serving narrative" about the murderous Assad...
In Honduras, Corpses Are Being Traded for Sloppy Imperial Policy
In June, a group of academics from around Latin America plus the US wrote a letter to the State Department railing against the US military presence in Honduras and demanding that aid to the country's abusive law enforcement apparatus be halted. They exposed the drug...
Are We Laying the Groundwork for ‘Genocide’ in Iran?
From the Guardian, yet another testimony on how the US-led economic warfare on Iran is tearing people's lives apart: For Fatemeh, the pill she takes twice a day in her home in Iran means the difference between life and death. Earlier this summer when she contacted her...
Always Wrong: Predicting Iranian War and Weapons
Stephen Walt has a piece up at Foreign Policy cataloguing the persistent predictions of a US or Israeli war on Iran, which always turn out to be dead wrong. My favorite bit: In September 2010, for example, The Atlantic published a cover story by Jeffrey Goldberg ("The...


