At least 35 people were killed and as many as 90 more were wounded in a complex attack on an army base in central Kirkuk. Meanwhile, another six people were killed and six more were wounded in other attacks.
read moreHagel Hearings Showcase Pro-Israel Agenda
If former Defence Secretary-designate Sen. Chuck Hagel’s lacklustre performance at his confirmation hearing Thursday heartened neo-conservatives and other hawks opposed to his nomination, those who argued that the Israel lobby has been exerting too great an influence...
Pakistan Tribes Turn Against Army
“We demand an immediate end to the military operation in Khyber Agency because it has not brought any results during the past three years,” says Iqbal Afridi from the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf party. “The military operations are killing the local...
Iraq: Four Killed, including councilman
The Asia Pivot and US Motivations
In 2011, the Obama administration formally introduced an offensive strategy designed to contain China’s rise to power, termed the "Asia-Pivot." In a November 2011 speech to the Australian Parliament, Obama described the Asia-Pacific as a "top...
Two Killed in Iraq Violence
Large anti-Maliki rallies took place in western Iraq, a week after soldiers killed protesters at a similar rally. In response, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki promised to honor “legitimate” demands. Violence was light. Only two Iraqis were killed and four more were wounded in the latest reports.
read moreChuck Hagel and Murder in Vietnam
Think of it as the Great Obama Shuffle. When U.N. ambassador Susan Rice went down in flames as the president’s nominee for secretary of state, he turned to ally, former presidential candidate, and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John...
Two Simple Rules
One of the (few) articles of faith of those calling themselves "progressives" is that the changes they seek to impose are inevitable and irreversible, and that opposition to them is but a futile attempt to "turn back the clock." Yet more often than not, this is...
Hagel Hearing: The War Party’s Waterloo
We have to be thankful to Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of our more theatrical solons, for dramatizing the way in which the Israel lobby intimidates members of Congress: by asking Chuck Hagel if he could name a single Senator who was so intimidated he merely underscored...
When Truth Tried to Stop War
Ten years ago, Katharine Gun, then a 28-year-old British intelligence officer, saw an e-mailed memo from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that confirmed for her in black and white the already widespread suspicion that the U.S. and U.K. were about to launch war...
