Standing Armies and the ‘Specter of Looming Dangers’
Via FORA.tv, a very revealing interview with Colin Powell: These are remarkable statements for a number of reasons. Let's take them one at a time. "Our force has never existed just to be ready to fight wars," but "to deter wars." Well, not never. As James Madison...
Unexploded Ordnances in Libya
As further illustration of how Libya was not the victimless war it is still made out to be, the Times reports on unexploded ordnances: The United Nations said this month that NATO, in an exchange not publicly disclosed, had shared details of 313 possible sites...
We Know You Know About Our Well-Known ‘Secret’ Drone Wars
Pro-Publica summarizes how absurd the Obama administration is being on its secret drone wars they keep telling everybody about: Over the past year, the American Civil Liberties Union and reporters at The New York Times have filed several requests under the Freedom of...
‘Knowing’ That Preventive War on Iran is Counterproductive
Via Micah Zenko, this short excerpt from New York Times reporter David Sanger's new book, Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power: And the core of the American argument [to Israel] was simple: attack Iran, and you set the program...
DEA Kills Another Honduran
Another Honduran was killed this weekend by US Drug Enforcement Agents, according to the New York Times. The DEA claims the man who was killed was a suspected drug dealer and reached for his gun, making the DEA's shots "self-defense." No independent observers were...
Arab Opinion: No Western Intervention in Syria
Via Daniel Larison, this Pew survey finds broad Arab support for Syria's Bashar al-Assad to step down and very little support for a Western military intervention: As Larison notes, "the farther removed from Syria’s immediate vicinity they are, respondents tend to be...
‘Simply put, no one is in charge.’
This Associated Press article comes from reporters who spent two weeks with opposition fighters in northern Syria. It is notable because almost all of the reporting on the conflict in Syria has been through second or third parties, often from a station in neighboring...
David Henderson: Iran Is Not Our Enemy
Antiwar.com economic analyst David Henderson appeared on Russia Today's Crosstalk. Peter Lavelle hosts, along with other guests Dan Williams of Reuters, and Sadegh Zibakalam of the University of Tehran. David explains that Iran is not our enemy and that there is no...
Which Way for the Paul Movement?
Writing in the New York Times, Brian Doherty, author of a recently published book on Ron Paul, asks the question: "For the Ron Paul Wing, Now What?" In the midst of an otherwise insightful and sympathetic piece, we get a disapproving reference to a lawsuit against the...
