Joshua Landis - who was consistently against US intervention in Syria before he was for sending in heavy weapons to rebels - writes that the Obama administration's latest effort to set up a new council of Syrian opposition leaders to organize the country towards...
“Don’t treat China as an enemy. Otherwise you end up with an enemy in China.” Those are the words of former Chinese diplomat Jia Xiudong. And they reflect the thinking in the Chinese government, as best we can tell. They don't appreciate Obama's "pivot" to Asia, a...
DC Editor John Glaser appeared on RT's CrossTalk with Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Charles A. Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bringing the September 11 attack on the Benghazi Consulate finally full circle today, a new analysis piece is reporting that the reason the Pentagon didn't respond to a multi-hour attack in a Libyan city is that, shockingly, the US doesn't have a massive military...
THE ACTIVISTS: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets from Melofilms on Vimeo. Created by Melody Weinstein, Michael T. Heaney, and Marco Roldán, The Activists: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets describes, "...activism in the anti-war movement in the United...
Faced with growing environmental concerns, the Israeli government is looking for ways to allow certain mammals to pass through the West Bank barrier unencumbered. Several groups were citing families of animals, including foxes, separated by the massive wall. "Many...
In April of this year, President Obama approved the CIA's request to begin launching targeted assassinations in Yemen through drone strikes even when the identities of those being targeted is not known. The US government calls these "signature strikes," and they are...
Nobody thinks the Afghan government puts Afghanistan on a path to independence, stability, and good governance. Well, almost nobody. According to the latest polls, an astonishing 40 percent of Americans think the war in Afghanistan is going "very well" or "fairly...
The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Clapper v. Amnesty International, a case which will determine whether or not the government's warrantless surveillance of American citizens can be challenged in court, even when the specifics of the program are...
This recent CSIS report is a stern warning that America needs to draw down the Empire, lest bankruptcy and collapse do us in first. It focuses on five trends that necessitate American decline and roll-back: "disappearing finances; rising alternative power centers;...
