IN THIS ISSUE Henderson/Zunes Speaking Event Top News Opinion and analysis David Henderson and Stephen Zunes to Speak on US-Iran Relations: Prof. David R. Henderson, co-chair of Libertarians for Peace, will be one of two speakers discussing the U.S., Iran and the...
Ron Paul Launches New Peace Institute
From Ron Paul's former Congressional foreign policy aide, now executive director of his new Peace Institute, Daniel McAdams: The Neo-Conservative Era Is Dead Former Congressman Ron Paul will hold a press conference this Wednesday to launch his next big project: the...
How the CIA is Wrecking Polio Eradication in Pakistan
It may sound melodramatic but one of the most tragic examples of blowback from our terror war in Pakistan is that the Taliban there are now trying to prevent Pakistani children from getting the polio vaccine, which has been available to Americans since the 1950's and...
Why Obama Won’t Cut Defense Spending
In case you've been asleep for the whole of Barack Obama's first term, here's one fundamental doctrine that has proven itself to guide his administration: if the President does it, it's not illegal. Mostly that has been true in the realm of secret war, indefinite...
Obama Is Lying Through His Teeth About the Drone War
For drone war advocates, the legitimacy of the targeted killing program rests on the notion that those targets pose a threat to America and US troops in neighboring Afghanistan. The AUMF and the principle of "imminence" supposedly form the legal basis of the drone...
Rally Against Guantanamo in San Francisco, Thursday Afternoon
From the Bill of Rights Defense Committee: Today, April 11 come out in support for a Day of Action Against Guantanamo. Detained men are on hunger strike, putting their lives on the line for the change that President Obama promised four years ago. We can't let...
America’s ‘Wretched Record’ of Military Proxies
In a discussion at The New York Times, Kate Doyle, a senior analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive, delivers a strong critique of one of America's greatest pastimes: arming and training foreign militias, often to bolster brutal...
US Sends Egypt 140,000 Tear Gas Canisters to Use on Peaceful Protesters
Washington hasn't given up on repressing the Egyptian people: A shipment of teargas canisters from the United States arrived at the Abadeya Port in Suez on Sunday, according to official documents obtained by Al-Masry Al-Youm. Five containers carrying 140,000 teargas...
Drone War Reinforced Terrorist Groups More Than You Thought
One notable little nugget from Mark Mazzetti's latest piece in The New York Times is the following, which gives added weight to warnings of blowback resulting from the Obama administration's drone war: ...the map of Islamic militancy inside Pakistan had been redrawn...
DC Insiders Urge Diplomacy With Iran
Glenn Greenwald has posted a good interview he conducted with Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett, authors of the recent book Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Scott Horton also interviewed the two on their book...
