by Russ Wellen | Jun 10, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
Last week in Politico magazine, Gary Sick wrote about what he calls the “most dramatic shift in Saudi policy since at least World War II.” To wit: The Saudi regime’s insistence on seeing threats to the Kingdom in fundamentally sectarian terms—Sunni vs. Shia—will put...
by Conn Hallinan | Jun 8, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
A quiet meeting this past March in Saudi Arabia, and a recent anonymous leak from the Israeli military, set the stage for what may be a new and wider war in the Middle East. Gathering in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh were Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...
by Charles Davis | May 20, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. Chelsea Manning was an all-American patriot when she joined the U.S. military in 2007 at the height of the surge in Iraq. But when she saw what her country was actually doing abroad —...
by Medea Benjamin, Nalini Ramachandran | May 13, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
Washington, DC is presently the converging point for some of the world’s most oppressive regimes. On May 13th and 14th, President Obama is hosting a billionaire conglomerate known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which consists of the Middle Eastern monarchies...
by Inge Fryklund | May 7, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace
In the Greek myth, Heracles battles the Hydra — a multi-headed reptilian monster that was terrorizing the Greek countryside. However, every time a head was cut off, two grew in its place, so cutting off one head at a time was an ineffective plan of attack. Heracles...
