From a CNN report on a US drone strike this week in Yemen that killed killed 13 civilians, including three women: Residents are not denying the existence of al Qaeda elements in their region but say that misdirected strikes work in favor of the militant group, helping...

Listen up, and get this straight. President Obama doesn't answer to you or me or any American citizen or to the press, and if he doesn't feel like explaining to you how he utilizes his kingly powers of executing anyone, anywhere on his immediate command, he won't. And...

Yesterday, in our news section, we provided a link to Glenn Greenwald's article on CNN International's refusal to air a documentary it commissioned uncovering the brutal crackdown by the US-backed dictatorship in Bahrain. Greenwald linked to the documentary, now...

According to Jeffrey Lewis at Foreign Policy, "the United States is building a nuclear bomb that costs more than its weight in solid gold." There is now a furious debate about whether the United States needs to modernize the B61, which dates to Lyndon B. Johnson's...

In June, the CIA declassified a heavily redacted 2006 review of the intelligence failure on Iraq's WMD in the lead up to the Bush administration's 2003 invasion. Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, writing in Foreign Policy describes it as a mea...

Since the Egyptian revolution, Washington has been scrambling for leverage in Cairo. Losing longtime US puppet Hosni Mubarak was obviously a major blow to US imperialists who aim to have the policies of Arab states reflect American demands as opposed to the will of...

The news that the Obama administration covertly contacted the Iranian government to confirm that the US would not back an Israeli strike so long as Iran doesn't attack US assets in the Persian Gulf is at once a dramatic development and utterly predictable. (The White...

The following is authored by Chris Woods and Jack Serle at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Reprinted here with permission.  Pakistan: August sees the highest number of CIA strikes in Pakistan since October 2011. A number of senior militants are killed along...

From the newest issue of Foreign Affairs, How China Sees America by Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell has some valuable insights. The diplomatic relationship between the US and China has soured recently, due especially to President Obama's bellicosity in the Asia...