The Israeli PM’s Real Goal: Regime Change in Washington

It’s no secret Israeli PM Netanyahu is using his extensive reach and political power to help bolster the Republicans in an effort to ensure that Barack Obama is portrayed as an anti-Israel, terrorist-supporting waif. Never mind that Obama has done more for Israel on almost every front than any other President in history. Bibi has […]

Where is the Honest Debate on Afghanistan?

I know that the MSM can’t walk and chew gum at the same time despite having a 24/7 news cycle and I know that most Americans really don’t know or care all that much about foreign policy, but given that on Saturday the deadliest attack against U.S. forces in the history of the Afghan War […]

The National Security State: If We Keep This Up The Terrorists Win

The events of 9/11 have spawned an understandable focus on security, however, the extent of fear-mongering, Islamophobia and ongoing curtailment of civil liberties, along with the meteoric rise of an unwieldy national security state which operates like a secret government within a government, is at odds with the principles and values of representative democracy. The […]

State Department Blocks Oversight of Its Private Mercenary Army in Iraq

So much for transparency. This is from Spencer Ackerman over at Wired. This is just an excerpt but go read the whole article here. Excerpt: By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the size of a heavy combat brigade. That’s the plan to provide security […]

Obama Administration Desperate to Keep Troops in Iraq

Iraq was never about weapons of mass destruction, it was about oil, re-making the map of the Middle East in the West’s image and securing military bases of operation in the region to fight other wars- like with Iran: But in recent months, the U.S. has let it be known that it is willing to […]

Time for Responsible Cuts to Defense Spending

Anyone who is serious about dealing with the deficit but who takes all defense spending off the table, isn’t really serious about deficit reduction. Instead, they are simply interested in using the debt debate as a pretext to cut social programs they never liked to begin with, all the while watching out for their corporate […]

Is the US Response to Mass Rapes and War Crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo Driven by Politics?

NY Times columnist Nick Kristoff is right- the crimes taking place in the DRC are among the most under-reported in the world. It’s almost as though the DRC doesn’t exist. When was the last time you heard a story about the never-ending conflict there? Probably the last time was when Secretary Clinton bravely went to […]

Obama’s Afghanistan Speech: Underwhelming

President Obama’s incessant need to try to please everybody is annoying. As usual, he has tried to split the baby and is bringing an insignificant number of troops home over a period of about two years. Given that his 2009 “surge” added 30,000 troops, he will only be bringing an extra 3,000 troops home to […]

What We Have Given Up to Fund the War in Afghanistan in 2011

The Iraq War was based on a lie and the war in Afghanistan has become a boondoggle of epic proportion and yet we are still in both countries (and a few new ones!), with no clear endgame in sight. The administration admits that there are around maybe around 50-100 Al Qaeda members in Afghanistan and […]