Can Iran Expand its Nuclear Program Rapidly?
Iraqi Govt Expels Former Blackwater Contractors
The Iraqi government has ordered hundreds of private security contractors who previously worked for Blackwater Worldwide or its subsidiaries to leave the country within seven days or risk arrest for visa violations, Iraq's interior minister said Wednesday. The order...
Wednesday: 5 Iraqis Killed, 28 Wounded
Numerous small attacks left at least five Iraqis killed and 28 more wounded. Meanwhile, an Iraqi journalist detained for 17 months on “classified” information has been released.
read moreIt Is Now Official: The US Is a Police State
Americans have been losing the protection of law for years. In the 21st century the loss of legal protections accelerated with the Bush administration's "war on terror," which continues under the Obama administration and is essentially a war on the Constitution and...
High Price Tag for Settlers’ Eviction
Jerusalem's mayor threatened last week to demolish 200 homes in Palestinian neighborhoods of the city in an act even he conceded would probably bring long-simmering tensions over housing in East Jerusalem to a boil. His uncompromising stance is the latest stage in a...
How to Beat the War Party
The road goes ever on – that's the name of the song Frodo Baggins sings, in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as he leaves the Shire with his companions to take on the Dark Lord, and I think of it as I wake on a deadline day and start thinking about my topic:...
US Nonprofit Targeted Rights Group Over Goldstone
A campaign of attacks against the New Israel Fund (NIF), a U.S.-based progressive organization that supports human rights groups in Israel, has gained attention in both the Israeli and U.S. media, raising questions about the role played by foreign nonprofits and...
Liberty Versus ‘Patriotism’
Dozens of people have been arrested under the Stolen Valor Act, which punishes, by up to a year in jail, the wearing of any unearned military medal. It is still a crime even if no effort was made to profit from the adornment or dissembling about earning it. This law...
Diplomacy in Afghanistan? Not Until US Identifies Why It’s There
Richard Holbrooke's comments on reconciliation with the Taliban in Afghanistan, made during the recent Munich Security Conference, echoed earlier remarks by UN officials and American military commanders in Kabul that suggest that diplomacy might be coming alive on the...
