Various factors influence whether a state which has suffered an attack on its facilities for nuclear development will continue with its program.
Would Attacking Iran Really Make It More Determined to Build Nukes?
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United States
Yet Another Excuse for the Military to Favor Drones
U.S. Air Force stealth fighter pilots lose critical training time to mechanical malfunctions.
To the U.S. Government, UFOs Are a Threat to Its Sovereign Rule
The U.S. government views UFOs as a form of competition.
U.S. Tries to Prop up Iran Assassination Case With Misinformation
As Gareth Porter writes, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer implicated in the Iran had nothing to do with the 2007 Mahdi Army attack on U.S. troops in Karbala, Iraq.
UN Origins Project Part 7: Forging a Lasting Peace
After two cataclysmic world wars, the overriding concern for leaders of the day was engineering an international system that would increase state interdependence.
Iran Assassination Plot Has Earmarks of FBI Care and Feeding
For many years, almost every terrorist plot the FBI has unearthed has been planted and nurtured by the FBI.
Paving Over the Money Pit of Nuclear-Weapons Spending
Members of Congress are concerned with the rising costs of nuclear weapons, including new facilities for plutonium and uranium.
The Ungreening of Obama
Barack Obama was green when he entered the Oval Office. He was a relative newcomer to politics. He was also the most successful fundraiser in presidential history, hauling in more green than the two Democratic and Republican candidates in 2004 combined. And he was, more or less, an environmentalist.
Review: Patriot Acts
The world started to make sense to Zac Reed when he accepted a new religion into his life. As he describes his story in the new book of oral histories titled Patriot Acts, assembled by Alia Malek, Reed’s conversion to Islam erased everything he had done for his country. He’d served in the military, volunteered for Desert Storm as part of the National Guard, and worked as a firefighter. But his life of service didn’t protect him from being detained and interrogated as part of the religious profiling that took place in the United States after 9/11.
What if Arbabsiar Was All About the Drugs, Not Terror?
Manssor Arbabsiar’s terrorism plans may have come at the urging of an undercover DEA informant, at the direction of the FBI.