San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – For decades, countless U.S. officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are […]
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Burning the Qur’an? ‘Wherever they burn books, they will in the end Burn Human Beings’
A tiny, fringe fundamentalist cult in Florida, of the sort that American popular Christianity specializes in producing, has announced that it will burn the Qur’an […]
July Deadliest Month ever for US troops in Afghanistan
Taliban killed three US troops in the Pashtun south with two bombings, bringing the death toll for July 2010 to 63, the highest since W. […]
The Closing of the Zionist Mind
It finally happened. The Jerusalem Post has declared archeology itself anti-Semitic. To tell you the truth, I am frankly worried about some of my colleagues […]
Dems Souring on Afghan War as 25 Killed by Roadside Bomb in Nimroz
Those opposed to President Obama´s escalation of the Afghanistan War were crestfallen when Congress approved another $33 billion in war funding. But as Richard Wolfe […]
Meyer: NY Times: Saber-rattling Against Turkey
Carlyn Meyer writes in a Guest Editorial for Informed Comment, also mirrored here: NYT Saber-Rattling Against Turkey The New York Times prides itself on being […]
Cameron Calls Gaza under Israel Blockade a ‘Prison Camp’
British Prime Minister David Cameron went to Turkey this week and engaged in some refreshingly blunt talk about Ankara’s application to join the European Union […]
War is Theft: Pentagon cannot account for $8.6 Billion of Iraq’s Reconstruction Funds
The Pentagon cannot account for the over $8 bn. given out to cronies in the first years of the Iraq occupation, money which came from […]
Dietrich: Energy and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy
Christopher R. W. Dietrich writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment: Energy and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy In a paper written in conjunction […]
40 Killed in Bombings of Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq;
Constitutional Crisis Unfolds
Despite Republican senator John McCain’s conviction that “We’ve already won that one,” i.e. the Iraq War, actually you couldn’t say either that the war is […]
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