U.S. support for Yemen Saleh regime will inevitably draw it into conflicts in the country’s north and the south, with disastrous results for all concerned.
The U.S. and Yemen’s President: A Lethal Cocktail
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GOP on START: Side Dish of Lard With That Pork, Please
In delaying START ratification, Republicans are sacrificing national security in order to lard their larders with more pork.
If They’d Listened to the Scientists We Might Not Need to Observe Hiroshima Day
Opinions about using the bomb were solicited from Manhattan Project scientists — but not heeded.
“WikiLeaks is a criminal enterprise”
Hawks are not above calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be apprehended on the territory of close U.S. allies, even without their consent.
“Countdown to Zero” Eclipses Those on the Frontlines of Disarmament
Who or what mounts the frontlines of disarmament? Countdown to Zero, disarmament groups, the Obama administration?
Israel Playing With a Fire It Expects the U.S. to Put Out
American neocons openly express the hope that any Iranian response to the Israeli attack would trigger full-scale U.S. war against Iran.
The Srebrenica Massacre, After Fifteen Years
The massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, in July 1995, is now being remembered worldwide, as this grim event reaches its fifteenth anniversary. This was the largest single mass killing of the entire Bosnian war, and indeed, it was the worst massacre that Europe has seen since the 1940s.
The Opposite Game: All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article
Have you ever thought about just how strange this country’s version of normal truly is? Let me make my point with a single, hardly noticed Washington Post news story that’s been on my mind for a while. It represents the sort of reporting that, in our world, zips by with next to no reaction, despite the true weirdness buried in it.
Secrecy Industry Hits Home
Marylanders in Odenton, Annapolis, Frederick and our hometown of Columbia had their suspicions answered last week when The Washington Post published a three-part series about our unchecked, out-of-control expansion of the defense and intelligence operations that have grown since 2001. The expansion of this influential sector has been evident to us, as it has to Americans all around the country living near other defense and intelligence contractors and federal intelligence agencies.
The WikiLeaks Documents Are NOT the Pentagon Papers 2.0
Even though we’re flooded with new information about Afghanistan — leaks, Rolling Stone features, et al — without the military draft, we have no hard incentive to enhance our knowledge.