While Germany continues to present itself as a key partner in the "War on Terror" and waxes judgmental about factions within NATO-occupied Afghanistan that launch terrorist attacks that kill civilians, they seem to be operating at cross-purposes, having dedicated a...
The Christian Science Monitor has a brilliant timeline up covering warnings of Iranian nuclear weapons capability for over thirty years. According to western intelligence, they've pretty much always been on the verge of having the bomb. Below is a summary. 1984: West...
Too bad ol' Doc Prather is retired now. If he wasn't, I guarantee to you that he would point out that buried in all the scaremongering about what Iran "may" be up to, the new IAEA report [.pdf] says: "[T]he Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared...
And apparently it's because he wasn't obedient enough to his illegitimate, abusive masters. Amnesty International: Shaker Aamer, a former UK resident of Saudi descent, has been held without charge at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for nearly 10...
Josh Rogin reports on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent speech on the Arab Spring. It is being billed by State Department officials as one that "takes on the hard questions that people in the region -- and people back here -- have been asking about the U.S....
Most of what I think needs to be said on the Iran nuclear weapons issue I've already written, or has already been written elsewhere. Namely, U.S. policy influences Iran strongly towards attaining a nuclear deterrent, so the notion that Iranians have intent here should...
I won't comment on the content of Angela Davis' speech at "Occupy Philadelphia": I just want to note the bizarre practice at these gatherings of repeating back the words of the speakers. The echo chamber effect is like something out of a horror movie, perhaps a remake...
The Nation's Robert Dreyfuss with one take on the potential for a US-Israeli attack on Iran: Needless to say, an Israeli attack on Iran would unleash catastrophic consequences, completely apart from whether or not Israel could actually do the job effectively. Whereas...
Antiwar.com columnist David Henderson will be speaking Saturday, November 5 at UC Berkeley: The Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy 3:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. East Pauley Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Building, sponsored by the Students...
The psycho dictator of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, became notorious for boiling his detainees alive after torturing them brutally. Well, no it seems he's gone in the other direction. And just in time, too, for the Obama administration to fully embrace them with aid and...
