Patrick Cockburn: The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100 billion a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all. A little over 10 years ago, I was standing on a small hill by a ruined...
A few days back I received an announcement from Rocky Anderson, announcing the platform of his newly formed Justice Party. Although social justice was mentioned prominently along with the desperate economic plight of many in the U.S., I was struck by the fact that the...
New Yorkers, especially Yemeni émigrés, have been protesting outside the lavish Ritz Carlton hotel outside Central Park where "former" Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is staying. After being granted immunity for the crimes he committed against the Yemeni people...
Remember the Project for the New American Century? They were the neconservative think-tank group that had been advocating invasion and regime change in Iraq since back in Bill Clinton's administration. Many of those involved - including Bill Kristol, Robert...
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...
