This week, a Senate committee approved revised language in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 that would attempt to cement in place a system of military tribunals for terrorism suspects, including those caught on American soil and potentially including...
This Reuters reporter went into an Iraqi barber shop to ask Iraqis if America gave them democracy. Here is a compilation of their responses: "OK, we have democracy. We can talk freely with no fear. We can demonstrate and vote freely. All these are available, and all...
...at least, we can surmise this from the country's recent release of 53 child conscripts from its army. They must know Obama cares about stimulating job prospects for children in the world's most horrifying countries to be a human being.
Marcy Wheeler has written quite a piece on Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif, a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo in danger of being jailed for life and deprived of habeas corpus rights because of Obama's tyrannical policy of indefinite detention. At issue is a Yemeni...
Actually, they were merely on the bus as it entered Jerusalem, which is confrontation enough. Free and democratic Israel has such a convoluted and restrictive system of permitting for Palestinians going anywhere that Arabs living in what are considered Jerusalem...
Josh Rogin reports that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta this morning told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq is ready to defend itself. Oh goodie. So this means we won't have to be giving the Iraqi government $2.4 billion in aid each year? And the State...
I have a piece in the news section today about U.S. drones being deployed in Turkey in support of Ankara's fight against the Kurdish separatist rebels (Kurdistan Worker's Party/PKK). This, despite ongoing investigations by rights groups into whether the Turkish...
At dawn, much of what was left of the Occupy Wall Street movement was convened at Foley Square in New York City, after being completely -- and forcibly -- cleared from Zuccotti Park in a 3 a.m. raid on the camp. Reuters has a great live video and Twitter feed here....
Some surprisingly good CBS reporting on Bagram Airbase as the new legal black hole, secret prison of the Obama administration: There are now 3,000 detainees in Bagram, up from 1,700 since June (!) and five times the amount there when Barack Obama took office. Many of...
America's political leaders constantly point to Egypt with pride, as a self-congratulatory example of how they are on the side of democracy and the Arab Spring. Hidden from the stump speeches for a miserably ignorant American public was how the U.S. supported the...
