by Teun van Dongen | Feb 12, 2015 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace
After a lull of some two months — a break punctuated by the toppling of Yemen’s government — the U.S. drone campaign in Yemen has resumed. The pattern that has emerged is distressingly familiar. While the U.S. government can claim the death of radical preacher...
by Peter Certo | Feb 11, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
At long last, the Obama administration has submitted a draft resolution to Congress that would authorize the ongoing U.S.-led military intervention against the Islamic State, or ISIS. The effort comes more than six months after the U.S. began bombing targets in Iraq...
by Walden Bello | Feb 5, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. From Germany to Belgium to France, European countries have been on a manhunt for terrorists in the wake of January’s shootings at the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo and a Parisian...
by Sarah Lazare | Feb 4, 2015 | Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace, Women
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. The expanding U.S.-led war on the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, has largely fallen off the radar of U.S. social movements. Many (but not all) who were active in anti-war organizing...
by Peter Certo | Jan 22, 2015 | Environment, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
The Obama administration has never been one for grand State of the Union addresses. And once the commentariat has had its fun picking apart the subtle jabs, the applause lines, the body language, and whatever else, there’s often not a whole lot of oxygen left to...