An odd story is emerging today, revealing that at least some Apple Stores are refusing to sell products to ethnically Persian people and claiming it is because of the US embargo on Iran. The reports begin in Georgia, where a 19-year-old US citizen was barred from...
From Roots Action: Meticulous researchers have documented that U.S. drones are killing many innocent civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Drones are making the world less stable and creating new enemies. Their remoteness provides those responsible with a sense...
The Washington Times has picked up on some gossip on what a Romney presidential cabinet would look like. Guess who for secretary of state? John R. Bolton, the U.N. ambassador during the George W. Bush administration and specialist on arms control and security issues,...
From Washington Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace: Five Broken Cameras Documentary Shows Israeli Incursions into West Bank Never Before Captured on Camera Busboys & Poets and Jewish Voice for Peace to sponsor special Peace Cafe discussion following July 15 showing at...
Source: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report, Gulf Security Architecture: Partnership with the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) tries to calm the waters roiled by his preemptive endorsement of Mitt "I'd Bomb Iran" Romney by taking to the pages of National Review Online to "rip" (as Conor Friedersdorf put it) Romney's view that the President doesn't need separate...
In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, Kenneth N. Waltz argues "Why Iran Should Get the Bomb." The article is a welcome example of calm and sobriety in what is mostly a sea of irrational pro-war hysterics. Waltz argues that the apocalyptic rhetoric railing against...
The National Security Archive has obtained through a FOIA request newly released CIA documents pertaining to 9/11. There do not appear to be any great revelations in the release, although one of them further illustrates what a liar former Vice President Dick Cheney...
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee just released a report [PDF] on US policy in the Middle East. Much of the study describes how Washington will maintain key military bases and troop presence throughout the entire region and how to overcome challenges to...
Via Ali Gharib, what the Obama administration is providing the Syrian rebels: LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANCE – U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that “U.S. intelligence operatives and diplomats have stepped up their contacts with Syrian...
