|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
By John Gray
$24.00
Milton Viorst
$ 11.16
$22
|
|
|
|
|
By Joe Conason — No doubt President Obama was deeply stung over the weekend to hear Dick Cheney criticize his new national security team.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
READ MORE 
|
AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
|
By Peter Z. Scheer — President Obama’s fifth State of the Union address was so wide ranging and inclusive, it’s almost difficult to recall the most ambitious proposals.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By William Pfaff — In 2009, the former head of the international law department of Israel’s military establishment, Daniel Reisner, said that “International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassination thesis and we had to push it.”
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
READ MORE
|
Flickr/U.S. Department of Defense
|
By William Pfaff — Military interventions by powerful nations into lesser ones, such as now continues in Mali (and Afghanistan), and is being urged by many into the Syrian civil war, are inherently reckless since even the most powerful states can have the whole project blow up on them.
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
READ MORE 
|
AP/Mohammad Hannon
|
As he watches neighboring Syria “implode,” the king of Jordan worries that the country will fracture and become a hotbed of religious extremism.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
READ MORE 
|
|
By William Pfaff — Is the Sahara the newest great threat to the United States—“a terrorist training ground,” hotbed of extremism, the new Afghanistan—in the Great War against Islamic terrorism that still preoccupies the American political class and the foreign affairs community?
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
READ MORE
|
The U.S. Army (CC BY 2.0)
|
By Ann Jones, TomDispatch —
Compromise, conflict or collapse. Ask an Afghan what to expect in 2014 and you’re likely to get a scenario that falls under one of those three headings.
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By Eugene Robinson — Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish.
Posted on Jan 25, 2013
READ MORE
|
U.S. Navy/MC1 Kenneth G. Takada
|
By David Sirota — Four years into his presidency, Barack Obama’s political formula should be obvious.
Posted on Jan 25, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By Amy Goodman — As President Barack Obama prepared to be sworn in for his second term as the 44th president of the United States, two courageous journalists premiered a documentary at the annual Sundance Film Festival.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
READ MORE
|
White House/Pete Souza
|
By William Pfaff — The overall failure of American foreign policy during the first Obama presidency was foreseeable.
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Massachusetts’ U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann must be held accountable for their actions during their prosecution of the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz; in China, a father hired online “assassins” to kill his son’s avatar in an attempt to save his real life; meanwhile, the U.S. is giving the Afghan government a fleet of drones. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
READ MORE
|
DVIDSHUB (CC BY 2.0)
|
Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record high last year as 349 soldiers—far more than were killed in active combat—took their own lives.
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
READ MORE
|
U.S. Navy/MC1 Eileen Kelly Fors
|
By William Pfaff — The utopian and missionary qualities of American political belief began in the Puritans’ Calvinist theology of “the Elect,” the chosen people.
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
READ MORE
|
White House / Pete Souza
|
By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We are about to have a major foreign policy debate in the guise of a confirmation battle over Chuck Hagel’s nomination as secretary of defense and the related argument over how long U.S. troops should stay in Afghanistan. President Obama should use this opportunity to stand up for his broader vision of how American power can be sustained and used.
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
By Amy Goodman — A journalist’s 7-year detention by the United States should be front and center in the forthcoming confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama’s choice the lead the CIA, John Brennan.
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
READ MORE
|
U.S. Army/Sgt. Matthew C. Moeller
|
By William Pfaff — Not all of the world—certainly not the Islamic world—wants America’s version of global security, which has required repeated American military interventions abroad, provoking guerrilla and terrorist resistance.
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
READ MORE
|
Dave_B_ (CC BY 2.0)
|
By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —
For all the dissimilarities, botched analogies, and tortured comparisons, there has been one connecting thread in Washington’s foreign wars of the last half century that, in recent years at least, Americans have seldom found of the slightest interest: misery for local nationals.
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Chuck Hagel has apologized for the anti-gay comments he made in 1998 but liberals continue to disapprove of him for secretary of defense; with so much emphasis on the infamous fiscal cliff, someone should pay attention to the looming “climate cliff”; meanwhile, India’s Supreme Court will rule on a case that may mean the end of affordable generic drugs all over the world. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
READ MORE
|
Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com (CC BY 2.0)
|
The first disclosed unmanned drone strike of 2013 killed top Taliban leader Mullah Nazir as he reportedly met with senior leaders of his group in South Waziristan early Thursday morning, security officials say.
Posted on Jan 3, 2013
READ MORE
|
mikecogh (CC BY-SA 2.0)
|
Born of the last decade of aggression against theocratic regimes many thousands of miles away, the American infidel “is a rebel for laissez-faire capitalism, an anarchist for the law, an enforcer of the established order,” writes Harper’s Magazine columnist Thomas Frank.
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
READ MORE
|
|
Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
READ MORE
|
AP/Patrick Semansky
|
By Robert Scheer — The major news outlets that were thrilled to profit from the information that Bradley Manning uncovered are deeply afraid of being associated with the brave whistle-blower himself.
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
By Amy Goodman — Pfc. Bradley Manning was finally allowed to speak publicly, in his own defense, in a preliminary hearing of his court-martial.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
READ MORE
|
PhotoAtelier (Glen) (CC BY 2.0)
|
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Dear President Obama: Nothing you don’t know, but let me just say it: the world’s a weird place. I mean, do you ever think about how you ended up where you are?
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Nov 30, 2012
READ MORE
|
decade_null (CC BY-SA 2.0)
|
The U.S. government formally values the human right to be free from indefinite detention without charge, except in certain cases such as when the practice is useful for securing its own interests in Afghanistan and Iraq, writes Glenn Greenwald.
Posted on Nov 24, 2012
READ MORE
|
U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Bryan Nygaard
|
By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — For nearly a decade I have had the privilege of teaching veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, though they have taught me more.
Posted on Nov 21, 2012
READ MORE
|
Illustration by Mr. Fish
|
By Chris Hedges — Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia.
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
READ MORE
|
U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell
|
By William Pfaff — As a former serviceman, I have been long bemused by the proliferation of ribbons and other decorations on the chests of today’s high-ranking army officers, now mired in scandal.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
READ MORE
|
AP/Chris O'Meara
|
The Petraeus scandal has expanded to involve another high ranking military officer: Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Posted on Nov 13, 2012
READ MORE
|
AP/Charles Dharapak
|
By Bill Boyarsky — Record numbers of Latino voters almost certainly gave Obama Nevada, Colorado, Pennsylvania and, thus, the presidency.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
READ MORE
|
White House/Pete Souza
|
By Peter Z. Scheer — I suspect that when my life is over I will have had two opportunities to vote in a presidential election for a black man, and I intend to take both of them.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
READ MORE
|
Thomas Hedges
|
By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
More than 650 companies showcased their weapon systems at the 2012 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual meeting and exhibition last month in Washington, D.C.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
READ MORE
|
Illustration by Mr. Fish
|
By Chris Hedges — I learned at the age of 10, when I was shipped off to a New England boarding school where the hazing of younger boys was the principal form of recreation, that those who hunger for power are psychopathic bastards.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
By William Pfaff — It is a profound but nearly universal mistake among Americans (and others) to think that the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in 2013 or 2014 will end the American war with the Muslim world that began on September 11 in 2001.
Posted on Oct 30, 2012
READ MORE
|
Obama for America/Christopher Dilts
|
While Obama flew home to take command of the federal response to Hurricane Sandy, the campaign marched on Monday, with 66-year-old Bill Clinton trying to catalyze the youth vote in Florida.
Posted on Oct 30, 2012
READ MORE
|
U.S. Navy/Chief Mass Communication Specialist Keith Deviney
|
By Robert Scheer — Obama, the naive community organizer, thinks the foreign policy debate is about national security, but Romney, the quintessential vulture capitalist, knows that it’s always been about maximizing profit.
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — If conservatism were winning, does anyone doubt that Romney would be running as a conservative? Yet unlike Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, Romney is offering an echo, not a choice. His strategy at the end is to try to sneak into the White House on a chorus of me-too’s.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
READ MORE
|
U.S. Marine Corps/SSgt Jeff Kaus
|
By William Pfaff — The United States is intellectually adrift upon an exceptionally turbulent sea running in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, and on the larger scene, Washington is blundering into serious trouble with Russia and probably with a China that is on the edge of both foreign and domestic crises.
Posted on Oct 23, 2012
READ MORE
|
AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
|
By Bill Boyarsky — The final debate of the presidential campaign was a dismal affirmation by both candidates of a foreign policy that has cost many thousands of lives and injuries and plunged the nation deeply into debt.
Posted on Oct 23, 2012
READ MORE
|
View the most popular tags overall?
|
|
Guantanamo Prisoner’s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
Newsletter 
Like Us
Follow Us
Get Our Feed
