Early on July 9, guards in Kaliti prison in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia told Reeyot Alemu to pack up her bags. After four years in prison, she was going home. Reeyot is one of six journalists, including two bloggers from the Zone 9 blogging collective, released on July 8...

Peter Beinart asks some pretty good questions: he wants to know why the same crowd that lied us into war in Iraq isn't completely discredited when it comes to their opposition to the recently concluded deal with Iran. No, he doesn't put it quite that way, in part...

106 Killed in Iraq as US Defense Secretary Visits

Last week, much of the US seemed to wring its hands over the US government’s deal with Iran over their nuclear program. The hysterical reaction from potential 2016 candidates to a mixed, but fairly positive solution to this crisis – most of them came out against the...

According to International Organization for Migration, the number of internally displaced Iraqis has now surpassed three million. About 20 percent of the refugees are in living arrangements that are considered “critical.” At least 81 people were killed and 82 more were wounded in fresh violence.

Going back at least as early as the 1989 Presidential election of Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran has been attempting to end its international isolation by improving relations with the United States. And at least since the election of Iran’s next President, Seyyed Mohammad...

Longtime readers of this column will recall my Bizarro World theory: the idea that the 9/11 terrorist attacks ripped a hole in the space-time continuum and pushed us into another dimension, one known – to all us fans of Superman comics – as Bizarro World. This is a...

The people of Haditha are running low on necessities and could be the Islamic State militants’ next target. But if the town should fall, with it might go a critical dam. At least 206 were killed and 94 were wounded in the latest violence: In Baghdad, a blast killed 16...

When it comes to flags, George Carlin said it best: “I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.” Yet, those who fanatically oppose particular flags are just as symbol/simple-minded as those who wave them. For example, the recent Jacobin surge to...

In March 2011, President Barack Obama succumbed to French pressure and led the NATO alliance from behind in bombing the Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. At the time, Obama was criticized for not letting the United States remain in the forefront of eliminating odious...