Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has played the “ugly American” in Tokyo, cast in a role he should not have been given.
War & Peace
The Obama administration will likely drop its Supreme Court petition challenging the release of photographs showing US soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan now that lawmakers are…
Every once in a while, a statistic just jumps out at you in a way that makes everything else you hear on a subject seem beside the point,…
The Senate Judiciary Committee narrowly passed a bill Thursday to extend several controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the counterterrorism law hastily drafted in the aftermath of…
The main nuclear debate in the major South Asian country has not been the one between nuclear militarists and their opponents. It has been the one between two…
The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, along with the ongoing slaughter of Afghan civilians and raiding hospitals, are in violation of international law as well as the US…
War is now defined almost exclusively as a punitive and militaristic process.
The repeated visits Vice President Dick Cheney made to the CIA before the war in Iraq were, in fact, unprecedented.