Republican Mitt Romney wants to burnish his foreign policy image with a trip to Britain, Poland and Israel this week, but I wonder if seven days off the campaign trail is really worth it. I mean, seriously. Poland? All candidates want to practice looking presidential overseas, but not all face the level of scrutiny that […]
Republican Mitt Romney wants to burnish his foreign policy image with a trip to Britain, Poland and Israel this week, but I wonder if seven days off the campaign trail is really worth it. I mean, seriously. Poland? All candidates want to practice looking presidential overseas, but not all face the level of scrutiny that […]
Following recent revelations by the New York Times that all military-aged males in Waziristan are considered fair game by the CIA in its drone strikes, many US journalists have been reassessing how they report on deaths in the attacks. So when CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen produced a graph claiming that no civilians have been killed […]
Following recent revelations by the New York Times that all military-aged males in Waziristan are considered fair game by the CIA in its drone strikes, many US journalists have been reassessing how they report on deaths in the attacks. So when CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen produced a graph claiming that no civilians have been killed […]
(MintPress)— Surviving members of Anwar Aulaqi’s family have launched a suit against the U.S. government with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights. The legal action is in response to U.S. military drone strikes in 2011 that killed three U.S. citizens in Yemen. Family members claim the killings […]
(MintPress)— Surviving members of Anwar Aulaqi’s family have launched a suit against the U.S. government with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights. The legal action is in response to U.S. military drone strikes in 2011 that killed three U.S. citizens in Yemen. Family members claim the killings […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress – The U.S. government is coming under renewed fire for its so-called unmanned drone “targeted killing” program, aimed at alleged terrorists, which the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights says has killed hundreds of innocent civilians in countries where the targets are thought to be operating. On Wednesday, the two groups […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress – The U.S. government is coming under renewed fire for its so-called unmanned drone “targeted killing” program, aimed at alleged terrorists, which the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights says has killed hundreds of innocent civilians in countries where the targets are thought to be operating. On Wednesday, the two groups […]
(MintPress) – The State Department recently released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report, listing governments in seven countries that continue to recruit child soldiers – nearly all of which receive military financing from the United States despite provisions in place against it. The Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA) prohibits the U.S. government from […]
(MintPress) – The State Department recently released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report, listing governments in seven countries that continue to recruit child soldiers – nearly all of which receive military financing from the United States despite provisions in place against it. The Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA) prohibits the U.S. government from […]
“The usual suspects” who see NATO plots everywhere, usually quoting France’s leadership of NATO as key to their crackpot theories, France having left NATO in 1959, know nothing about Syria. There is no “Arab Spring” in Syria, the infamous “tin foil hat”plots that claim George Soros is the afterbirth of Maggie Thatcher and Satan. Syria went […]
“The usual suspects” who see NATO plots everywhere, usually quoting France’s leadership of NATO as key to their crackpot theories, France having left NATO in 1959, know nothing about Syria. There is no “Arab Spring” in Syria, the infamous “tin foil hat”plots that claim George Soros is the afterbirth of Maggie Thatcher and Satan. Syria went […]
President Obama’s continued bombing of Pakistan, despite Islamabad’s repeated calls for the CIA to halt its attacks, means the two nations may technically be at war, says a US Congressman. Dennis Kucinich, who has represented Ohio since 1996, described the US covert drone programme as ‘vigilantism conducted by robots’. In an interview with the Bureau, Democrat […]
President Obama’s continued bombing of Pakistan, despite Islamabad’s repeated calls for the CIA to halt its attacks, means the two nations may technically be at war, says a US Congressman. Dennis Kucinich, who has represented Ohio since 1996, described the US covert drone programme as ‘vigilantism conducted by robots’. In an interview with the Bureau, Democrat […]
