Raw Story: Five Republican lawmakers from Washington state have introduced legislation that condemns the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 for controversial measures regarding the detainment of terrorism suspects, according to the Tenth Amendment...

The Senate's latest in an interminable number of anti-Iran resolutions, in addition to including the usual "crippling sanctions," calls on President Obama to "develop a more robust Internet freedom strategy for Iran." Iran, like a number of nations, does censor the...

Iraq is projected to become an oil giant of as much geopolitical influence as Saudi Arabia. And the U.S. government and its corporations are at the center of that trend. Ben Van Heuvelen has a piece at Foreign Policy describing Iraq's burgeoning "extractive industry"...

I wrote today about Obama's denial that a "huge number of civilian casualties" are resulting from the drone war in Pakistan. There is plenty of evidence of high numbers of civilian casualties from the drone strikes, and I write about and link to much of it in the...

In prepared remarks to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper reviewed "global threats to the United States." He covered a number of things, one of which was the alleged Iranian plot to kill a Saudi Ambassador in...

From AFP over the weekend: The United Nations has called on Israel to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank after reporting a dramatic rise in demolitions in the past year. Israeli forces destroyed 622 Palestinian homes in the West...

Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy: President Barack Obama's administration has been delaying its planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain due to human rights concerns and congressional opposition, but this week administration officials told several congressional offices...