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...
Earlier this month, the UN Security Council Committee Chairman issued a letter warning against the increased use of drones over the skies of Somalia, saying such actions may violate international law. Excerpt: The number of reports concerning the use of Unmanned...
Paul Wolfowitz, sort of the Don of neoconservatism, still believes US aggression in the Middle East can proliferate democracy: Wolfowitz just lets the question about post-war chaos and sectarianism wash over him. Iraq and Syria are different, he says. Actually,...
