Iraq is projected to become an oil giant of as much geopolitical influence as Saudi Arabia. And the U.S. government and its corporations are at the center of that trend. Ben Van Heuvelen has a piece at Foreign Policy describing Iraq's burgeoning "extractive industry"...
I wrote today about Obama's denial that a "huge number of civilian casualties" are resulting from the drone war in Pakistan. There is plenty of evidence of high numbers of civilian casualties from the drone strikes, and I write about and link to much of it in the...
In prepared remarks to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper reviewed "global threats to the United States." He covered a number of things, one of which was the alleged Iranian plot to kill a Saudi Ambassador in...
From AFP over the weekend: The United Nations has called on Israel to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank after reporting a dramatic rise in demolitions in the past year. Israeli forces destroyed 622 Palestinian homes in the West...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | January 27, 2011IN THIS ISSUENo War With IranTop NewsColumns and ViewpointsEventsSupport Antiwar.comNo War on Iran: National Day of Action Feb. 4On Feb. 4, activists in cities across the country will call for a national day of action...
Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy: President Barack Obama's administration has been delaying its planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain due to human rights concerns and congressional opposition, but this week administration officials told several congressional offices...
Dana Frank, professor of history at the University of California, has a piece in the New York Times about the Obama administration's avid support for the corrupt military regime in Honduras. She's written previously about it, as have I on this blog. Excerpt: It’s time...
In the news section today, Jason Ditz points to inter-militia fighting and rampant torture in Libya, America's latest liberated country. This shouldn't be a surprise, as we've pointed to the ugly humanitarian abuses of the so-called freedom fighters NATO helped oust...
Shamila N. Chaudhary at Foreign Policy notes how the Taliban are getting criticized for not having a consistent message on peace talks: they issued a Jan.3 statement about starting up a political office in Qatar and a willingness to negotiate, and then on Jan 12 they...
