Chances are dim that elections will be held in Yemen next February. Yet without elections, the push for reforms and change that were inspired by the Yemeni revolution would become devoid of any real value. Yemenis might find themselves back on the street, repeating...
Why are Israel, Saudi Arabia, and their congressional allies in both American political parties trying to kill an interim nuclear deal with Iran that effectively freezes (and in some instances rolls back) the Iranian nuclear program until a comprehensive deal can be...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Once upon a time, you might have said that someone “disappeared.” But in the 1970s in Argentina, Chile, and elsewhere, that verb grew eerily more active in its passive form. He or she no longer “disappeared,”...
How many times has the Pew Research Center for People and the Press come out with a poll showing that the American people are going "isolationist"? I’ve lost count. The latest poll results show that: "The public’s skepticism about U.S. international...
Nancy Pelosi called it the "selfie of the year": the group snapshot of the first four women to make it through Marine infantry training. "Fearless," as Pelosi describes them. "Badasses," as onlookers have labeled them. Here is an acerbic quote...
Hamid Karzai, he of the signature Karakul hat and brightly colored robes, we hardly knew ye. Karzai, upon whom the Queen of England once bestowed an honorary knighthood, we barely recognize you. Karzai, for whom we have overlooked the drugs, the money laundering, the...
Remember the "Orange Revolution"? You’ll be forgiven if you don’t: Ukraine’s "color revolution," organized, financed, and planned in the West, blends into the rainbow gallery of failed Western-backed regime-change operations launched in the wake of...
