Netanyahu’s Freeze Scam Netanyahu’s Freeze Scam
What did Benjamin Netanyahu mean when he said he and Mahmoud Abbas should be prepared to make "painful concessions" for the sake of peace?
Sep 30, 2010 / Henry Siegman
Is Obama’s Use of State Secrets Privilege the New Normal? Is Obama’s Use of State Secrets Privilege the New Normal?
The Obama administration has invoked the state secrets privilege for the second time in less than a month—this time in an effort to shut down discussion of the targeted kil...
Sep 29, 2010 / Ryan Devereaux
Questioning the Cycle of War Questioning the Cycle of War
In our longest war, we have yet to even begin to grapple with the whys of war and the what-war-really-is questions.
Sep 29, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Petraeus Cites Karzai-Taliban Peace Talks, While American Troops Escalate War Petraeus Cites Karzai-Taliban Peace Talks, While American Troops Escalate War
US forces step up bombing of Pakistan and threaten cross-border ground attacks, and launch offensive in three districts around Kandahar
Sep 28, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
The Washington Gossip Machine The Washington Gossip Machine
Once a serious journalist, the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward now makes a very fine living as chief gossip-monger of the governing class.
Sep 27, 2010 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Cyberwar Against Iran: Is Obama Already at War with Tehran? Cyberwar Against Iran: Is Obama Already at War with Tehran?
Reports that a computer virus in Iran is state-sponsored may signal that the United States is already attacking Iran.
Sep 27, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Afghanistan: It’s Time for a Ceasefire, and Negotiations Afghanistan: It’s Time for a Ceasefire, and Negotiations
Gilles Dorronsoro, an iconoclastic visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, says Pakistan can deliver the Taliban to the bargaining table. It's time to try it.
Sep 24, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Is the Drug War a Class War? Is the Drug War a Class War?
The war on drugs. We keep calling it that, it seems, because we like wars on abstract concepts.
Sep 23, 2010 / Laura Flanders
US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids and Weapons on Black Market for its Shooters
The businessman also alleges he witnessed Blackwater's cocaine- and hashish-laced "frat parties gone wild" and random shooting at Iraqi civilians.
Sep 23, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
Kashmir 2010: The Year of Killing Youth Kashmir 2010: The Year of Killing Youth
India’s brutal crackdown against unarmed protesters adds to the long local memory of extrajudicial killings, torture and mass repression. In the battle of stone versus bullet...
Sep 22, 2010 / Parvaiz Bukhari