The United States, Europe, and Saudi Arabia seek regime change in Syria, but Russia does not want to see another country wrested from its orbit.
Is Libya a “False Analogy” (in Hillary Clinton’s Words) to Syria?
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War & Peace
Israel’s War on Democracy (and Why Americans Should Be Concerned)
Right-wing legislators, militant settlers, and a growing religious divide in the Israeli army threaten to silence internal opposition to the Netanyahu government.
Does U.S. Believe Arms Deal With Bahrain Will Encourage Human Rights?
A $53 million U.S. arms sale, put on hold in November pending an investigation into Bahraini security forces human rights violations, is being pushed forward by the Obama Administration despite opposition by Congress and human rights observers.
Avoiding a War in the Persian Gulf
With tensions between the United States and Iran rising over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, the prospect of an accidental or deliberate military provocation in the region has increased dramatically. Direct military conflict between the two sides is more likely now than at any point since diplomatic relations were severed in 1980.
We’re America and We’ll Breach Whatever Perimeter We Want
What if Iran’s Republican Guard we’re conducting operations at the U.S. border with Mexico?
Pit of Pits: Los Alamos Proposed Plutonium Facility
The United States nuclear-weapons program, stockpiled with nuclear-warheads, need not concern itself with manufacturing them for a generation, if ever.
U.S. Legal Justifications for Nuclear Weapons Fall Flat on Their Face
The case that the United States makes for possession and potential use of nuclear weapons is legalistic to the extreme.
The West Judges Iran by Not One, But Two Double Standards
When it comes to nuclear weapons and assassinations, Iran is judged by a different standard from the West.
Putting a Country on a Leash: Iran and Uranium
If Iran agrees, on paper, to end uranium enrichment, it will no longer be inspected and could then secretly recreate its program.
An Alternative to War with Iran
Relations between Iran and the West, fraught with tension and conflict for decades, have in the past few months reached a fever pitch. There is talk of war on a daily basis from both sides. Hundreds of millions, if not billions, have been spent both to fuel the Iranian missile and nuclear program and the counter-measures taken by the West to frustrate it. Leaders on both sides have worked themselves into paroxysms of rage regarding the alleged homicidal intensions of the other side.