When and how did America lose her soul?
America has lost her soul. You feel something is missing, the kind of sense of community that we used to have–20 or 30 or 40…
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CIA nominee is presumptive war criminal; multiple reasons to reject Haspel nomination
Trump, Russia and the betrayal of American heroes
Beyond Trump and the November elections: Is a coherent U.S. foreign policy possible?
International Law and the Descent toward Barbarism: MSF —“Wars are being fought as in ‘barbarian times’
The ugly face of America: Donald Trump and his supporters
A new and more dangerous Cold War is underway
The 70th anniversary of the unconditonal surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945
REPRISE: If Putin invades Mariupol and seizes a land corridor to the Crimea, what will NATO, the U.S. and the EU do?
Civilization falters, as Russian aggression stands and Islamic terrorism explodes
The Charlie Hebdo massacre by Islamic extremists on January 7 underlines the failure of the West and other civilized countries to win the struggle in…
The Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, and the torture trail leading to Abu Gharib
See ANDREW HIGGINS and MAÏA de la BAUME, “Two Brothers Suspected in Killings Were Known to French Intelligence Services,” New York Times, January 8, 2015….
Torture is an issue which defines America as a nation
We now have the published Executive Suumary of the Senate Select Committee on Inteligence Torture Report. In one of Senator Diane Feinstein’s finest acts…
The definition of “torture”
Before and after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its Report on Torture under the Bush administration, on December 9, 2014, a well-orchestrated publicity…
Brazil publishes Truth Commission Report; U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture Released; U.S. officials debate whether torture “worked”
Developing — preliminary draft See (1) “Comissão Nacional da Verdade entrega a Dilma relatório final das investigawções; Presidente recebeu em audiência no Palácio do Planalto,…
Obama seeks to block publication of Senate torture report; Pillar of democracy at stake
Background — See (1) “Sicherheitsbedenken: US-Regierung bremst Veröffentlichung von CIA-Folterbericht,” Der Spiegel, 6. Dezember 2014 (19:55 Uhr). Der US-Senat wollte umfassende Informationen über geheime Foltermethoden…
Human rights abuses by Putin’s puppets: The seventh report of the OHCHR on the human rights situation in the Ukraine (with link to full report)
Draft By launching a war of aggression in the Crimea and the eastern Ukraine, in flagrant violation of Article 2 paragraph 4 of the United…
In the fog of aggression and war: Putin’s coup d’etat in Russia
Many developments within Russia, particularly since February, 2014, have signaled the consolidation of a dictatorship of military and security services under the leadership of President…
U.N. report describes widespread violations of human rights in areas of Ukraine under Russian or Russian puppet control
For a sobering look at what is going on in the Donbas ant the Crimea, behind the headlines, see Office of the United Nations High…
Order in the World: Things fall apart
One of the wisest and most-experieced journalists reporting on foreign policy, Roger Cohen, who writes an Op-Ed column for the New York Times, has published…
Obama: “We tortured some folks…It’s important for us not to feel too sanctimonious in retrospect about the tough job that those folks had. And a lot of those folks (our law enforcement and our national security teams) were working hard under enormous pressure and are real patriots.” (full transcript)
Developing Excerpt from President Barack Obama’s press conference today, Fiday, August 1, 2014: Q What about John Brennan? … THE PRESIDENT: On Brennan and the…