The attack in the Sinai on Sunday was followed by a wild round of accusations from nearly everyone in a desperate attempt to exploit the incident for their own state interests. Even though Hamas strongly condemned the attack as a "heinous crime," Israel saw fit to...
Barbara Slavin at Al-Monitor reviews the new book by David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran. Crist is a US Defense Department historian and a lieutenant colonel in the US Marine Corps Reserve whose father was one...
Steven Aftergood on the stubborn secrecy of Congress: It is a simple fact that under the FISA Amendments Act “the government can and does intercept the communications of U.S. citizens, even in the absence of any particularized warrant or showing of probable cause,”...
Charles Davis noted on Sunday President Obama's statement on the act of terrorism committed by a man shooting up a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The President "mourn[ed] this loss which took place at a house of worship" and killed six people. By contrast, Davis...
Anthony Gregory on the anniversary of America's dropping of nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945: The only way to regard the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and so many other U.S. war campaigns, as anything other than state terrorism, is to define the concept in such an...
Columbia University Professor Gary Sick on the apparent "curtain of silence [that] has been drawn" over the aid being sent by the US and its allies to the Free Syrian Army: ...I look — mostly in vain — for any detailed disclosure of the sources and methods that are...
The most important and most frequently ignored distinction in the debate about Iran and its nuclear program is that Iran's current postures are defensive in nature, not offensive. Right-wing pundits constantly harangue about Iran's supposed intentions to annihilate...
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...
