The CIA remains as devoted to cruelty as ever.
Attacks on First Responders Transform Criminality of Drone Strikes to Sadism
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Human Rights
Drones Obliterate Shades of Gray Between Militants and Civilians
Just because someone is a “militant” doesn’t mean that killing him or her is lawful.
Obama Must Rewrite His Foreign Policy Legacy
The big question for foreign policy is whether Legacy Obama will be a bolder advocate for peace than the disappointing Campaign Obama. The president will need to recast a foreign policy that has been weak or downright contradictory in standing up for the principles he himself has espoused.
The Surrealism of the Everyday in Serbia
Serbian political cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf digs into the substratum of human experience, what lies beneath consciousness.
What Explains Aung San Suu Kyi’s Silence About the Persecution of Burma’s Minorities?
It’s difficult to understand why Aung San Suu Kyi dodges ethnic issues.
Drones: Whatever Became of U.S. Respect for International Norms Prohibiting Assassinations?
The ease with which we’ve accepted drone attacks bodes ill for the future.
The Idea of Europe
“Euroskepticism” has crept into the hearts of eastern Europeans.
Citizen Participation in Presidential Debates Kicked to the Curb This Election
The larger question facing our nation about the U.S. role in the world and how the candidates themselves would define what is in the national security interest of the United States was almost completely ignored.
What’s Not at the Museum of Broken Relationships: The Yugoslavian Six-way Marriage
Meanwhile, “Yugonostalgia” has been all the rage among a certain class of cognoscenti over the last few years.
Obama, Romney, and the Foreign Policy Debate
As he did in the first two debates, GOP candidate Mitt Romney reversed himself on a number of extreme right-wing positions he had taken earlier in a desperate effort to depict himself as a moderate. At the same time, Obama’s hawkish stances served as yet another reminder of just how far to the right Obama has evolved since running as an anti-war candidate just four years ago.