On Monday March 30, in a committee room in the House of Commons, Diane Abbott MP chaired a meeting entitled, "Britain's Guantánamo? The use of secret evidence and evidence based on torture in the UK courts," to discuss the stories of some of the men held as...
Obama’s Neoliberals: Selling His Afghan War One Report at a Time
A Closer Look at the US’ Drones
It's one thing to study online articles describing the MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators. It's quite another to identify these drones as they take off from runways at Nevada's Creech Air Force base, where our "Ground the Drones" campaign is holding a ten-day...
Obama’s Lieberman Problem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was sworn in Tuesday -- just one day later his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, set off a firestorm by saying he judged Israel was no longer bound by agreements reached at the late-2007 peace conference...
All Unclear Over Israeli Policy
JERUSALEM -- How genuine is Israel's new leadership about peace when the Prime Minister says that he will go a long way towards striving for a settlement with the Palestinians, but purposefully omits to endorse an independent Palestinian state; and, when his foreign...
America’s New Era of Leadership
How to Combat Mexican Drug Cartels
Friday: 1 US Soldier, 5 Iraqis Killed; 17 Iraqis Wounded
Sarkozy, Merkel Frozen in the Cold War
The AfPak Paradox
There is a new acronym in the lexicon of Obama administration national security moguls. "AfPak" stands for Afghanistan and Pakistan. The term denotes the administration's desire to take a unified approach to policy and strategy for these two countries....