For a month now, the Saudi air force has been bombing Yemen to reverse a takeover of that nation of 25 million by Houthi rebels, and reinstall a president who fled his country and is residing in Riyadh. The Saudis have hit airfields, armor and arms depots, and caused...
52 Killed in Iraq Bombings and Executions
US Foreign Policymakers Cannot Be Trusted
The megalomaniacs of the Washington power elite actually think they can mold the Middle East to their specifications. No calamity resulting from their clumsy machinations ever causes them to rethink this preposterous conceit. Look at some of their more recent...
Not Your Grandfather’s FBI
Does the FBI manifest fidelity, bravery and integrity, or does it cut constitutional corners in order to incriminate? Can the FBI cut the cable television lines to your house and then show up pretending to be the cable guy and install listening devices? Can FBI agents...
Hillary the Hawk
Announcing her latest campaign for the presidency, Hillary Clinton declared she was entering the race to be the champion for “everyday Americans.” As a lawmaker and diplomat, however, Clinton has long championed military campaigns that have killed scores of “everyday”...
No Let Up in Baghdad Blasts; 136 Killed in Iraq
AFRICOM Behaving Badly
Originally posted at TomDispatch. There were those secret service agents sent to Colombia to protect the president on a summit trip and the prostitutes they brought back to their hotel rooms. There was the Air Force general on a major bender in Moscow (with more women...
How To Judge a Political Candidate
As buds sprout on long-dormant trees and the first blooms of Spring peek out from their beds, presidential candidates are gearing up for the political season – which is, I fear, already upon us. It therefore behooves us to examine what to make of them: but first it's...
How the US Contributed to Yemen’s Crisis
Washington's support for Yemen's former dictatorship – and of Saudi efforts to sideline the country's nonviolent pro-democracy movement – helped create the current crisis By Stephen Zunes As a Saudi-led military coalition continues to pound rebel targets in...