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A Test Case on Sanctions?
If thereās one thing most Americans support in foreign policy, itās sanctions against Iran to halt its alleged drive for nuclear weapons. From President Obama to Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and …
Render to Caesar, Extraordinarily
Some of us pause on Good Friday to mark the torture and death of a high-value detainee rendered, extraordinarily, to Roman occupiers. Although the charges against Jesus of Nazareth …
East Timor: A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threaten the Powerful
Milan Kundera's truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there …
Zionist BDS – Kosher for Passover
History should mark March 18, 2012, as an important date on the road to a just and peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. That was the date on which …
Iranian Diplomat Says IAEA Undermined Recent Talks to Satisfy Israel and West
Gareth Porter: IAEA demanded to see Parchin on recent visit ahead of schedule to make Iran look uncooperative. Gareth Porter is a historian and investigative journalist on US foreign …
Self-Dealing and the War Service Industry, Part I
On April 19, 2007, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the Army's management of KBR's contract, called LOGCAP, which provided support and logistics to our troops …
Deal Close on Night Raids, US and Afghan Officials Say
Kabul, Afghanistan - After years of insisting that American forces end covert nighttime raids on Afghan homes, President Hamid Karzaiās government was close to completing a deal that would …
Israeli Experts Mum on Iran Attack to Support Bibi’s Bluff
Tel Aviv - A striking feature of the Israeli political landscape in recent months has been the absence of a serious debate on the issue of the threat of …
Data Mining You: How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to …
Broken Promises: America’s Forgotten Iraqi Allies Face Death and a Long Road Home
A medic talks to an Iraqi civilian with help from a translator. (Photo: Jametiks) A young Iraqi interpreter named Ali was riding with members of the United States Army …