Over the weekend, I highlighted the UN report which found that the number of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan rose for the fifth year in a row, at 3,000 in 2011. This puts the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan since 2007 at over 12,000. The UN...
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel L. Davis writes that his deployments to Afghanistan revealed to him a reality that "bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground." I witnessed the absence of success on virtually...
Last month I wrote about "The Incredible Push for Intervention in Syria," especially from very influential neoconservative Washington-insider groups like the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Foreign Policy Initiative (successor to New American...
Featured in our news section, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has published an important new investigation into America's drone war in Pakistan, finding that many strikes have deliberately launched follow-up attacks, killing people "who had gone to help rescue...
From Secrecy News: A House-Senate conference report this week called on the Administration to accelerate the use of civilian unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones,” in U.S. airspace. The pending authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration directs...
The Obama administration wants to sanction Iranian oil without negatively effecting global oil markets. No, seriously: The White House said on Thursday the Iran sanctions proposed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama should be enforced in a way that does...
Yesterday's bloody soccer riots in the Egyptian city of Port Said left at least 73 people dead, and top members of the new Egyptian parliament blame the military junta for escalating the violence. Protesters, many of them soccer fans, are now taking to the streets of...
Raw Story: Five Republican lawmakers from Washington state have introduced legislation that condemns the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 for controversial measures regarding the detainment of terrorism suspects, according to the Tenth Amendment...
