Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely reported. Only one crucial element is missing from this routine censure: a credible explanation of why American nation-building failed there. No wonder. To do so, the U.S. would have to denounce itself.
The administration diverts added funds to the nuclear lab corporate contractors, who, in turn, apparently fund Democratic candidates.
Israel’s apology to Turkey over the 2010 Mavi Marmara killings might lay the groundwork for direct intervention in Syria by NATO and Israel.
Missile defense, drones, and other instruments of the devil.
The discrepancy is significant because it reduces the Israeli violence to an exclusively Turkish grievance.
Re-opening the Meredith Kercher murder case is a last-ditch effort by Italy to save face.
Nuclear weapons vastly complicate foreign policy.
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The suit against Scott Lively maintains that his rhetoric threatens the safety of an already persecuted population, thus making it a crime against humanity.
Ten years after the Iraq War, the domination of neo-conservative ‘defense hawks’ in the Republican Party is increasingly under siege, not only because of the growing national consensus that the Iraq invasion was a major strategic debacle, but also because of the increasing popular concern – noted in a number of major polls over the past six months – that Washington simply can no longer afford the kind of imperial vision the hawks have promoted.