David Rothkopf on "Obama's Debacle" in Afghanistan: ...The president opposed his own policy of sending in more troops to stabilize Afghanistan from the moment he approved it after months and months of messy internal wrangling. So why did he do it? The answer is that...
Today, on the morning of the pre-trial hearing of the "NATO 3," -- who are being charged with "conspiracy to commit terrorism," "terrorism" and "possession of incendiary devices"-- another explosive (excuse the pun) revelation has been made by Occupy Chicago. In an...
(Reposted from The American Conservative) For years, Pentagon officials have insisted that the open-air burn pits incinerating tons of garbage and other waste on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan could not be causing long-term health problems for our troops. But an...
This may illuminate, for those who have been confused, what the true role of DC's major think tanks is: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, concerned by his portrayal in U.S. media as an autocratic leader intent on consolidating power, has invited several influential...
"President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political transition could work there," Reuters reported on Saturday. Just to remind people, after about a year...
B'Tselem: On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on the eastern outskirts of the village 'Asira al-Qibliya, from the settlement Yitzhar. B'Tselem volunteer photographers filmed the events from two angles. The...
Via Mike Riggs at Reason, Michael Hastings reports at BuzzFeed that an amendment has been inserted into the latest version of the NDAA that would nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987, both of which ban domestic...
On May 1, President Obama arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan like a thief in the night. Embassy officials and the White House initially claimed the reports of his visit were "untrue" and by the time they copped to it, the president had signed a pact with Hamid Karzai...
Robert (left) and Daniel (right), the two activists released Friday night (Photo by Steve Horn) Two more antiwar activists, in from out of town to protest the NATO Summit, were released from a police station on the south side of Chicago late tonight at roughly 10:00...
(Photo: Zach D. Roberts / GregPalast.com) TruthOut Assistant Editor Yana Kunichoff has just filed an alarming report titled, "NATO Protesters Held Without Charge After Raid as Chicago Steps Up Police Activities," showing that in the lead-up to the NATO Summit protests...
