OK, this is the first anniversary of the U.S. apparently killing someone with a long beard in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The new spin is that Mr. Obama, making a "gutsy call," took the high-risk course of sending in "boots on the ground" rather than...
The U.S. and Japan have come to an agreement on the relocation of about 9,000 U.S. Marines that will leave their bases in Okinawa, with about 5,000 transferred to Guam and the rest spread among other locations in the region like Hawaii, Australia, etc. This is just...
From what I can tell, the pre-trial hearing of Bradley Manning is a moral mockery that will be looked upon with shame by future generations. As I wrote on Thursday, the military judge in Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing refused to dismiss the criminal charges as...
The big, bad, dangerous North Korea actually paraded fake missiles to scare Washington. And it apparently worked since Washington spent so much time hysterically denouncing the country for its pathetic failure of a missile test launch last week. Analysts who have...
This is the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica. Indignation about bombing civilians seems like such a historic relic. Unfortunately, this atrocity seems to have been almost completely forgotten in the United States. Perhaps the last time that the most famous...
There are two narratives on the Syria conflict rising to the top of the headlines the past few days. First, the ceasefire brokered by UN envoy Kofi Annan has failed. Second, Western powers are eager to escalate their interventionist policies. Both narratives are...
The comments of Israel's top military chief Benny Gantz are getting a lot of attention. But they are not new. "[Iran] is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn't yet decided whether to go the...
"We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people." - President Barack Obama, Fort Bragg, N.C., December 2011 “You will leave with great pride – lasting pride.” - Secretary of Defense Leon...
Despite the legal burdens in keeping it secret, the Obama administration is doubling down on the drone war. In procedures for FOIA requests on "targeted lethal operations" conducted by the CIA - that is, the drone war - government lawyers asked the court to allow...
Obama's new initiative to sanction private companies that help undemocratic regimes repress their people should not be construed as an act against repression per se. Just the kind Washington isn't complicit in. The Washington Post explains "[t]he new steps are...
