Can international capital explain why Canada has become so subservient to the U.S. in Afghanistan and beyond?
Empire’s Ally: What Happened to Canada?
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SOTU: Obama Grades His Foreign Policy
Former law professor Barack Obama went into surprising depth on issues of war and peace during his fifth State of the Union address. Here’s how he should grade himself.
Beta Testing Drones on Unwitting Subjects
Civilians are the innocent victims of U.S. use of an unproven technology ― drones.
Foreign Policy Thin-Sliced (12/26)
Show George W. Bush some love.
Conn Hallinan’s 2013 “Are You Serious?” Awards
Each year Conn Hallinan looks aghast at news stories and newsmakers that beggar belief.
Drone strikes in Pakistan: Reapers of Their Own Destruction
The 10-year drone-war killing spree has unleashed the seeds of its own destruction: a nonviolent resistance movement.
Drone Victims Come Out of the Shadows
New films, reports, and media coverage are finally giving the American public a taste of the personal tragedies involved in the U.S. drone war.
Perpetual War: How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?
This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books. On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. Just as he...
Social Control Not Just Aim of Drone Surveillance, But of Drone Strikes, Too
In a Boston Review article titled The Sound of Terror: Phenomenology of a Drone Strike, Nasser Hussain attempts to … provide a phenomenology of drone strikes, examining both how the world appears through the lens of a drone camera and the experience of the people on...
President Obama’s Meeting With Malala Yousafzai Was Riddled With Irony
To one Nobel Peace Prize winner from one who isn’t: “Drones are fueling terrorism.” So spoke Malala Yousafzai to President Barack Obama. She’s the 16-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for daring to urge the schooling of girls. She was...