A recent study found that nationalism "brings happiness." METHODOLOGY: Tim Reeskens, a sociologist from Catholic University in Belgium, and Matthew Wright, a political scientist at American University, categorized national pride into "ethnic nationalism," which is...

Another Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated in Tehran and a familiar pattern is emerging: Weeks before a new round of talks, all sides escalate and provoke, mainly to improve their negotiating position at the upcoming talks. The West has adopted new...

When Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded last week that the U.S. cede control of the detention facilities at Bagram airbase, it was ironic, in a cynical way. Came forth the opportunity to pit Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama against the leader of one of the...

As the airwaves are set ablaze about the Evil Iranian Menace sentencing to death a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, suspected of spying for the CIA, let us remind ourselves of our own government's trampling of individual rights. Over the weekend, the New York...

There are some "scary" reports out in the last few days about Iran beginning uranium enrichment at an underground bunker at the Fordow site near Iran's holy city of Qom and "diplomats" are saying it is "particularly worrying because the site is being used to make...

Unmentioned in the news reports and official acclaim about the supposed end to the U.S. war in Iraq was the ongoing suffering in Fallujah as a result of American crimes committed there in 2004. Al Jazeera recently released two reports on this of note (linked below)....

Someone is playing games on Youtube, and they’ve managed to fool an awful lot of people – mostly “reporters” and bloggers who hate Ron Paul – into falling for one of the more transparent hoaxes of this election season. It all started with an incredibly stupid video...

This Frontline documentary is well worth a watch. It covers opium eradication policies in Afghanistan and all of the pain and suffering that ends up causing ordinary, peaceful Afghans. Watch, in particular, for Afghan government authorities, watched after by NATO...