Columbia University Professor Gary Sick on the apparent "curtain of silence [that] has been drawn" over the aid being sent by the US and its allies to the Free Syrian Army: ...I look — mostly in vain — for any detailed disclosure of the sources and methods that are...
The most important and most frequently ignored distinction in the debate about Iran and its nuclear program is that Iran's current postures are defensive in nature, not offensive. Right-wing pundits constantly harangue about Iran's supposed intentions to annihilate...
An updated Al Jazeera report on how we liberated Fallujah, Iraq: Antiwar.com columnist Kelley B. Vlahos wrote a brilliant piece in April 2011 in The American Conservative cataloguing the scientific support behind the conclusion that this ongoing suffering in Fallujah...
Journalist Larry Derfner says it plainly: "Israel is not going to attack Iran." Not before the November 6 presidential election, not afterward if Obama wins, and maybe not afterward even if Romney wins, which is unlikely. It’s not that Netanyahu doesn’t want to bomb...
Gore Vidal, a longtime critic of American imperialism, died Tuesday. He was 86. Jesse Walker and John Nichols have posted notable obituaries, and Salon.com has compiled several of Vidal's memorable television appearances. For those interested in exploring Vidal's...
A new poll finds 80% of Americans think Iran has a nuclear weapons program and that it is a threat to the US and its NATO allies. The poll, commissioned by The Israel Project, asked likely voters and found "72% of Democrats, 81% of independents and 89% of Republicans...
Via Allison Deger at Mondoweiss: "Haaretz reported settlement spending has skyrocketed by 38% since 2010,reaching a two-decade high of $1.1 billion. Historically this level of funding was surpassed only once in 1993 during the post-Oslo boom in Israeli control over...
CNN's Christiane Amanpour asked Sudan’s Ambassador to the UK, Abdullahi Alazreg on Monday whether Sudan will hand over the country’s president, Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Alazreg responded by saying that...
