Yesterday's headline in the Independent is an example of how U.S. policy towards Colombia has been labeled by some as at least a partial success. It reads: "Is this the grisly end of Colombia's civil war?" The event that prompted such vaunted optimism was the killing...

I've said it until I'm blue in the face, but I guess I'll say it again: Iran is operating out of a perception of threat and provocative militarism towards Iran will only increase the likelihood that they decide to seek a deterrent (That said, of course, the recent...

As'ad AbuKhalil, for those who don't know, is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University. On his blog today, he cited a news source in Arabic, which I can't read, but he summarizes it for us: This is not in the US media but is...

President Barack Obama, Octobert 20, 2011: One year ago, the notion of a free Libya seemed impossible. But then the Libyan people rose up and demanded their rights...The new government is consolidating the control over the country...So this is a momentous day in the...

See a couple of my recent pieces on Mexico's messed up drug war, here and here.

U.S. aid to the essentially military regime in Honduras has increased every single year since the coup in 2009, with $68 million allocated for 2012, as I wrote about recently. And, as Dana Frank at Nation magazine has documented, Obama has “allocated $45 million in...

Via Jacob Heilbrunn, speaker of the Israeli Knesset Reuven Rivlin speaks out against price-tag attacks, in which extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank attack Palestinians and their property out of anger towards the dismantling of illegal Jewish settlements in...

Flynt Leverett, professor of International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University and Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, and his wife Hillary Mann Leverett, CEO of Strategic Energy and Global Analysis, write of the IAEA report on Iran: Ever since...