former Israeli PM Ehud Barak is being held to account, only because the ruling Likud Party perceives him as an enemy of their agenda
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The American Quagmire in Afghanistan by the Numbers (21,565 US Troops Dead or Wounded)
Number of US military personnel killed in Afghanistan since 2001: 2,150 Number of US service members wounded in Afghanistan badly enough to go to hospital […]
Saudi Arabia forces Women to Cancel Driving Protest, Asserts Authoritarianism in Region
A key group of Saudi feminists have called off their planned protests for Saturday against Saudi Arabia’s bizarre ban on women driving. (Some individuals may […]
Is the Arab World turning back to Russia? Egyptian Delegation heads for Moscow
An Egyptian delegation heading to Moscow just after the United States cut $300 million out of its aid package to Cairo to punish the July […]
The Horrors of Peace for the US Elite: Bashing ‘Isolationism,’ Blaming it for War (Bacevich)
Andrew J. Bacevich writes at Tomdispatch.com: The abiding defect of U.S. foreign policy? It’s isolationism, my friend. Purporting to steer clear of war, isolationism fosters […]
How the US Government Betrayed the Constitution and invented an Imaginary Fascist One
The idea of having a strong Federal government was controversial in the early United States, and one of the ways Federalists reassured Americans that it […]
No, NSA snooping didn’t foil 50 Terrorist Attacks (Elliot & Meyer)
Claim on “Attacks Thwarted” by NSA Spreads Despite Lack of Evidence Justin Elliot and Theodoric Meyer write at ProPublica Two weeks after Edward Snowden’s first […]
Why the US needs Electric Cars: Saudi Arabia threatens Pivot away from US
The royal family of Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy with no constitution and no elected legislature, is in a snit about US foreign policy. King […]
Rights Groups: Some US Drone Strikes are War Crimes (Oldroyd)
Rachel Oldroyd writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Leading human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have raised serious concerns about the […]
Egypt’s Coptic Christians Protest Killing by Fundamentalists of 4 at Church
Coptic Christians in Egypt staged a big demonstration on Monday to protest the shooting deaths of four church-goers at the Church of the Virgin in […]
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