The State Department is almost certainly deceiving the American public regarding U.S. involvement in the murder of several Honduran civilians. As I've written, the government kept this information from the American people for almost an entire week (the incident is...
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A few months ago I pointed to an important piece in Foreign Affairs by Micah Zenko and Michael A. Cohen who argued that despite the constant fear-mongering and threat inflation in America, we are actually very secure and face very few, very minor external threats. I...
Headlines are awash today with the breaking news that Iran is continuing to send arms to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, despite UN sanctions prohibiting such transfers. Forget the usual counter-narrative double standard about how the U.S. supports its own brutal...
In the name of the war on drugs, the U.S. has murdered a number of civilians, including two pregnant women and two children in Honduras. Dan Kovalik at Huffington Post: According to the Honduran newspaper, Tiempo, as well as the Honduran human rights group, COFADEH,...
In the news section, Jason Ditz tells us that the State Department is preparing to remove the Iranian dissident group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) from their official list of terrorist organizations. This, after years of praise and advocacy from elite members in American...
From Jamal Abdi, Policy Director, National Iranian American Council Congress is planning to vote today to make war with Iran more likely. This afternoon, the House of Representatives is going to consider H.Res.568 – a resolution that significantly lowers the threshold...
Justin has already written about this in great detail, but I thought I'd put up an image comparison between the AP's "drawing" and a detonation nanodiamond explosion chamber. Given that Iran is known to have a perfectly legal, 100% non-nuclear, 100% civilian...
At Foreign Policy, James Traub wonders whether we might be causing outrage and creating enemies through our drone war in Yemen. As Barbara Bodine, a former ambassador to Yemen, notes, "Right now we don't have a Pakistan-like reaction. But at first we didn't have that...
