All Commentaries
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (6/13)
Emphasis, as always, added.
From the Spanish Civil War to Syria: Parceling Out Truth Subverts Justice
All of us practice a partial vision some extent.
When Will the Dirty Wars End?
Jeremy Scahill’s Dirty Wars details the growing use of extrajudicial assassinations by the U.S. executive branch to strike at targets around the planet, without any declaration of war or meaningful congressional oversight. And it documents the human toll of such unchecked power by featuring some of the innocent victims of this global war.
For Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement a Cruel, But All Too Usual, Punishment
The effects of solitary confinement are insidious.
Slovenia and Bulgaria: a Tale of Two Reforms
Slovenia has virtually vaulted into Western Europe while Bulgaria has remained behind the informal Iron Curtain that continues to divide the developed from the developing parts of the region.
How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars
Bradley Manning has done more for U.S. security than SEAL Team 6 ever did.
Payback for Colonial Sins
The British government’s offer of monetary compensation of £20 million to over 5,000 living Kenyan survivors of systematic torture during the Mau Mau anti-colonial revolt is a historic reckoning with an ugly past. It also dispells the myth that the British were more enlightened, benevolent, or liberal in their self-anointed “civilizing mission” than their imperial European counteparts.
Syria: the Charade of Humanitarian Intervention
From the outset diplomacy for the U.S. has meant calling for regime change.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (6/10)
From Iraq to Iran to Syria.
Vultures Over Burma
A poem: To all the men and women who sing change change change Mee-ahn mar–we never heard of you before.