Two US Marines were killed yesterday protecting a US-British base complex in Helmland Province of Afghanistan. Prince Harry is currently assigned to the British portion of the base and serves as a helicopter pilot. His presence at the base was revealed last week. Many...
It's commendable that Maddow so meticulously illustrated the extent to which this attack on the US consulate building was the work of former US-backed Libyan rebels connected with al-Qaeda. But she should have gone even further. Reports now say that infiltrators...
Protests and attacks at US embassy building spread across the Muslim world today, cropping up in Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Israel, Gaza, and Bangladesh.
From David Remnick in the New Yorker: It is hard to overestimate the risks that Benjamin Netanyahu poses to the future of his own country. As Prime Minister, he has done more than any other political figure to embolden and elevate the reactionary forces in Israel, to...
Unsurprisingly, increased US military and financial support of the Kenyan government is correlated with increases in human rights abuses, according to Jonathan Horowitz at Foreign Policy, who says that the US "may rightly be criticized for aiding and abetting human...
It seems there is a strong possibility that the attacks on the US consulate in Libya, which killed four Americans including the US Ambassador, had much less to do with a dirty anti-Islam movie than with al-Qaeda's presence in that "recently liberated" country. Very...
Jerusalem Post: In an apparent reference to the public spat between the United States and Israel, former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told the Calcalist conference on Tuesday that preserving strong ties with the United States is an Israeli security necessity. "We...
Kurt Eichenwald reminds us in the New York Times that the infamous briefing declassified for the 9/11 Commission entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” was just one of many, many pre-9/11 classified warnings that an attack was imminent. He writes that "the...
The Obama administration has superseded both domestic and international law in its targeted killing program in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. A legal memo from the Congressional Research Service has concluded that "none of the established legal frameworks is a perfect...
It was reported late last week that President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas plans to head off another PLO bid to upgrade Palestine's status at the United Nations to "a state under occupation." The PLO's last attempt at being recognized as a state at the...
