1,288 posts found for ‘iran’

Many of the immigrants I met had worked in war zones alongside the Americans or the English or were escaping a common enemy like ISIS. Their plight reflected Europe’s and the United States’ refusal to accept responsibility for decades of violent meddling in other countries.

Listening to standard-issue neocons speak in a way they thought would not be public gives some insight into how they actually think and what they're saying when talking to one another.

In the midst of a very effective speech in defense of an important deal with Iran, Obama proudly summarizes a disgraceful part of his legacy: one of militarism and aggression.

Wyllys’ unexpected stance is a powerful case study in exploiting liberal social issues to generate left-wing support for militarism.

The Center for American Progress censored its own writers to placate anger from AIPAC and embraced some shockingly extreme policies of militarism.

The fallacy of "whataboutism" is now a favorite Western tactic for distracting from one's own abuses, demanding that one's citizens focus on the crimes of other governments rather than their own.

Where are all the newfound free speech activists who insisted that a defense of free expression was so vital to all that is good and just in the Western world? Why isn't the #JeSuisBDS hashtag trending in defense of these activists who have been persecuted — prosecuted — by France for their political views?

A top-secret NSA document describes how an analyst stumbled across internal communications from the state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela, highlighting serious issues with the agency's indiscriminate collection practices.

During the 1990s, the U.S. abused the UN arms control process to target Iraq's non-WMD military and overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Rice had to decide: Should she make the U.S. look worse and Obama look better by telling the whole truth, or keep quiet and make the U.S. look better and Obama worse? Her choice is instructive.