Dana Frank, professor of history at the University of California, has a piece in the New York Times about the Obama administration's avid support for the corrupt military regime in Honduras. She's written previously about it, as have I on this blog. Excerpt: It’s time...
In the news section today, Jason Ditz points to inter-militia fighting and rampant torture in Libya, America's latest liberated country. This shouldn't be a surprise, as we've pointed to the ugly humanitarian abuses of the so-called freedom fighters NATO helped oust...
Shamila N. Chaudhary at Foreign Policy notes how the Taliban are getting criticized for not having a consistent message on peace talks: they issued a Jan.3 statement about starting up a political office in Qatar and a willingness to negotiate, and then on Jan 12 they...
Secrecy News has a post up on John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer being charged under the Espionage Act for contributing to the exposure of state crimes: In the present case, Mr. Kiriakou is charged with providing the name of a “covert agent” in response to...
I think this is a clever way to get around the financial blockade the government and the banks have placed on WikiLeaks: Starting in March, Mr. Assange will host a 10-part series of interview programs with "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries"...
There was a long list of sanctions already imposed on Iran before this latest round from the U.S., and now that Obama's diplomats have been successful in pressuring the European Union to ban the import of Iranian crude oil and block trade in other markets like...
From a new Congressional Research Service report, American casualties soar in Afghanistan since Obama took over: Afghan civilian casualties, although the numbers are less solid than DoD's tracking of Americans killed, have also skyrocketed under Obama's surge. See...
Robert Wright talks with Mikhael Manekin of Breaking the Silence:
U.S. policy in the last couple of presidential eras has demonstrated complete acceptance of North Korea's megalomaniacal leadership attaining nuclear weapons. In 2003 though, make-believe weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq were enough of a threat to...
As prominent voices in the U.S. pontificate about a looming nuclear bomb in Iran, as fleets of U.S. navy warships demonstrate provocative militarism in the Persian Gulf, and as Israel uses its committed constituency in America to push for a preemptive military strike,...
