11 Iraqis Killed in Bomb and Gun Attacks
At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in relatively light violence over the last two days.
read moreWidespread Muslim Skepticism of US as Democracy Advocate
Despite continuous assurances that the United States favors democratic rule during the 18-month-old “Arab Spring," majorities or pluralities in six predominantly Muslim countries see Washington as an obstacle to their democratic aspirations, according to a new survey...
Drones Overseas Lead to Drones at Home
The principal function of government since 9/11, even if unintentional, has been to develop strategies to reduce individual liberties and transfer power to the government while not appearing to do so. Of course, neither George W. Bush nor Barack Obama actually...
The Real Blowback Fallacy
Writing in Foreign Affairs, Christopher Swift attempts to show that cause-and-effect is not a concept applicable to foreign policy in "The Drone Blowback Fallacy." What he ends up doing only reinforces the idea that a government can't continue butchering children and...
Hands Off Tuvalu!
No country is safe from the power of the Israel lobby — no, not even tiny Tuvalu, a nation consisting of nine minuscule islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean totaling ten square miles. Rep. Howard Berman, former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee and...
Wars Have Unpredictable and Dangerous Collateral Effects
The recent bloodless (referring to American blood — the most important to U.S. policymakers) overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya has been touted as a low-cost model for future U.S. military interventions. The recent Libyan election is said to have vindicated...
The Mystery of Arafat’s Death
We may never know with complete certainty whether the still unexplained health crisis that suddenly did in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was due to natural or unnatural causes. But the recent discovery of polonium on Arafat’s clothing, added to a considerable body...
Iraq Bloodshed: 13 Killed, 38 Wounded
As U.N. envoy Kofi Annan is in Iraq for meetings with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki over the Syria crisis, at least 13 Iraqis were killed in new violence. Another 38 were wounded.
read moreLook Who’s Singing the Sequestration Blues
For a moment just imagine that American public schools received 80% of their operating budgets from the federal government, and in an attempt to control that budget and lower the national debt, Congress voted to cut the next year’s appropriations by at least 7%. As a...
