At the blog for the Council on Foreign Relations, Elliot Abrams concludes that people who think illegal settlement construction hinders the Israeli-Palestinian peace process are not living "in the real world." Abrams has argued before, amazingly, that settlements in...
The Associated Press headline pushes the occupation line that the "coalition" is trying to "build" a cadre of leaders, but a perusal of the text makes clear that Kabul and its Western masters are actively demolishing age-old local governance traditions in a probably...
During the Cold War, the pretext for reigning terror down upon the masses in Central and South America through U.S. imperialism was the creeping communist threat. This was used as a justification for our 1954 overthrow of Guatemala's democratically elected...
Richard Falk has an insightful and somewhat dispiriting piece at al Jazeera called "Why the Afghanistan War Won't End Soon." He writes about the prescience of the so-called 'Vietnam Syndrome' (once referred to as "sickly inhibitions against the use of military...
The Des Moines news reporter who noted our anti-war message at the entrance of yesterday’s Republican Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa, was not present with us long enough to see the real story. Our banners actually got an amazingly good reception! Our group of sign holders...
The graph, from the Just the Facts blog, shows the trend in economic and military aid to Latin America between 1999 and 2010. It's a common mistake, what with Reagan's extreme terrorism in Nicaragua and El Salvador, to think that the height of U.S. intervention into...
A while back I blogged about a nutty congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, who visited Iraq and suggested Iraqis ought to be the ones to pay Americans reparations. But that was just a kooky representative, right? He didn't know what he was talking about. Jet lag, perhaps....
From Secrecy News: The Obama Administration is putting the finishing touches on a new executive order that is intended to improve the security of classified information in government computer networks as part of the government’s response to WikiLeaks. The order is...
Foreign Policy has a piece up by J.M. Berger about Anwar al-Awlaki, the American born Muslim living in Yemen that has been targeted for extra-judicial assassination by the Obama administration. Fundamentally, the piece doesn't distinguish itself remarkably from any of...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) last month began to publish their findings in a study of the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. The study found that much higher rates of civilian casualties had resulted from the U.S. drone war than had been admitted by the...
