Central America has become the most dangerous place on Earth. The prevalence of organized crime, corruption, and inordinate rates of homicide has "metastasized," as this new report from the Council on Foreign Relations describes it. The U.S. has flooded the region's...
Yesterday was the 95th anniversary of President Wilson's address to Congress calling for a declaration of war against Germany. The U.S. entry into the war opened a Pandora's Box that still plagues America and much of the world. One of the war's clearest lessons: Lies...
Via Malou Innocent, embedded journalist Neil Shea writes in The American Scholar about the mistreatment perpetrated on Afghans by U.S. soldiers, which the media (including himself, he admits) never include in the war coverage. From shooting valuable animals and pets...
Via Jeremy Scahill, this news from Alakhbar English (Lebanese paper) on the WikiLeaks Stratfor emails: US government officials requested that an American private security firm contact Syrian opposition figures in Turkey to see “how they can help in regime change,” the...
It was reasonable to expect that troops, who knew the errand they were sent upon, would treat the people whom they were to subjugate, with a cruelty and haughtiness which too often buries the honorable character of a soldier in the disgraceful name of an unfeeling...
Unfortunately, this zippety P.C. Vey cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker may soon be out of date....
Source: Pivot to the Pacific? The Obama Administration’s “Rebalancing” Toward Asia
In my latest conversation with Scott Horton on Antiwar Radio, we discussed the renewed focus Washington has had on Africa, particularly in the first term of the Obama administration. As part of a larger foreign policy I wrote about here and here, the U.S. is now...
From an article in the Sun about the alleged attempted rape of a young male soldier at Wattisham air base, where Prince Harry is based: "A drunken gang of three soldiers allegedly pinned him down as he slept at Wattisham, Suffolk. A military police probe is under...
