Most Americans are probably unaware that over the past two weeks the US has launched at least eight drone attacks in Yemen, in which dozens have been killed. It is the largest US escalation of attacks on Yemen in more than a decade. The US claims that everyone killed...
In its response to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the nature and extent of NSA spying on Americans, the Obama administration has by this time gone through all the stages of grief: denial, reluctant acknowledgment, and – finally – acceptance of the reality that the...
As more and more becomes known about blanket spying by the National Security Agency, one thing is becoming increasingly apparent. Government officials are deliberately and repeatedly misleading Congress and the US public in a concerted effort to conceal as much as...
While Julia Ioffe, a writer for The New Republic and a Russia expert, is no friend of the Putin regime, she knows her stuff – enough to know that Putin doesn’t control everything in Russia. But what does she know about Russia? After all, she was only born there –...
"There have been times when they slip back into Cold War thinking," said President Obama in his tutorial with Jay Leno. And to show the Russians that such Cold War thinking is antiquated, Obama canceled his September summit with Vladimir Putin. The reason: Putin's...
Russia is the Anglo-American media's favorite bogeyman these days, and, no, it has little to do with the vicious anti-gay laws they've passed, or their reluctance to cooperate with our meddling in Syria: after all, Qatar, with whom we're cooperating in sending aid to...
The U.S. military was planning to increase the number of CV-22 Osprey transport aircrafts – tiltrotor helicopters that look like massive, flying crabs – in Okinawa Prefecture, which the U.S. has occupied since the end of World War II. The plans were foiled when...
