The United States is facing a Soviet-sized crisis. Where is the Gorbachev who can rein in our military?
Cyberwarfare Works on Same Premises as Nuclear War
The creator of Stuxnet, while oblivious to its potential to proliferate, no doubt intended it as a deterrent.
Is It Time to Worry About Ahmadinejad’s Apparent Fanaticism?
How would we feel about Iran President Ahmadinejad’s extremism if he usurped Supreme Leader Khameini in power?
Disingenuousness Rules the Nuclear Roost
Iran doesn’t understand how its caginess about its nuclear program compares with Israel’s deceptions about its full-blown nuclear-weapons program.
Is “Cyber Missile” Launched at Iran Israel’s Handiwork?
Super-worm Stuxnet too sophisticated to have been developed by private citizens.
Review: ‘Midnight on the Mavi Marmara’
Published less than two months after Israeli commandos boarded an international aid flotilla bound for Gaza and killed nine activists, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara is, in the words of editor Moustafa Bayoumi, “the first book about the attack,” but “will likely not be the last.” This collection of some four dozen essays from eyewitnesses and “activists, novelists, academics, analysts, journalists, and poets,” serves many purposes. Some essays are expressions of simple outrage. Others probe more deeply into Israel’s broader political strategy in the region and its human costs for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Author and Harvard scholar Sarah Roy’s essay offers a detailed and rigorous accounting of Gaza’s humanitarian and economic woes, while well-known academic and blogger Juan Cole’s excellent contribution emphasizes the deeper problem of Palestinian statelessness, the political fact of which the Gaza blockade and even the Israeli occupation itself are merely symptomatic.
CNN’s Michael Ware Tries to Force Iraq War Down Public’s Throat
A correspondent seeks to make the public see the Iraq War for real from the viewpoint of both Coalition forces and Iraqis.
An Off-Ramp From Our Iran Policy Could Take Us on the Scenic Route to Peace
Nowhere is it written in stone that U.S. policy on Iran must continue to suffer from a failure of imagination.
With Abuse of Palestinian Children, IDF Hits New Low
Widespread reports that members of IDF abuse Palestinian youths makes you wonder just what childrearing practices they’re a product of.
U.S. Still Top Arms Supplier to South as Record Sale to Saudis Pends
Despite an unusual dip in global weapons sales in 2009, the United States retained its spot as the world’s top arms supplier of developing countries, according to an authoritative new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).