by Danny Sjursen | Jan 29, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
In March 1906, on the heels of the U.S. Army’s massacre of some 1,000 men, women, and children in the crater of a volcano in the American-occupied Philippines, humorist Mark Twain took his criticism public. A long-time anti-imperialist, he flippantly suggested that...
by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies | Jan 15, 2020 | Redev, War & Peace
The U.S. assassination of General Qasem Soleimani has not yet plunged us into a full-scale war with Iran thanks to the Iranian government’s measured response, which demonstrated its capabilities without actually harming U.S. troops or escalating the conflict. But the...
by Harry Blain | Jan 9, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
Practically speaking, the Trump administration’s extrajudicial assassination of a top Iranian general was probably legal. The rationale is straightforward: Congress has steadily settled on a constitutionally dubious theory of handing the president near-limitless...
by John Feffer | Jan 8, 2020 | Redev, War & Peace
The United States has been in a 40-year cold war with Iran. Just like the cold war with the Soviet Union, the conflict between Washington and Tehran has been fought largely through proxies: in Yemen, in Syria, in Iraq. Iranian-aligned organizations like Hezbollah have...
by Khury Petersen-Smith | Jan 8, 2020 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
This commentary is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and InTheseTimes.com. The new year opened with the United States committing an extrajudicial assassination in a foreign country by drone. I’m not talking about the January 3, 2020 rocket attack that...
