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NEW YORK – The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) long awaited, much ballyhooed report on Iran’s nuclear activities has been thunderously greeted here as conclusive evidence that Iran is working on nuclear weapons. Both Tehran and a 2007 U.S. combined intelligence assessment deny such claims. There’s little new in this report, and a lot of déjà vu. [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
America’s best-that-money-can-buy legislators have passed into law the proposition that any international body that admits the state of Palestine as a full member shall immediately lose all US funding. In the past week this has meant US defunding of UNESCO leading to possible complete withdrawal from that organization if a bill proposed by Senator Lindsey Graham [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
I did a cover article for The American Conservative back in 2005 called “Money for Nothing”. I detailed how more than $20 billion of mostly Iraqi government funds earmarked for reconstruction had disappeared. In one case a Blackhawk helicopter load of $100 bills was handed over to a contact in the Kurdish region without so [...]
Filed under: Economics, Foreign policy, War
Is Chris Christie a faux-political rockstar? Paul Mulshine says we should be glad Christie isn’t in the presidential horse race. Though New Jersery Governor Chris Christie has managed to don the cape and cowl of a conservative crusader on the national stage, sending politicos and Republicans around the country into a swoon, his true political [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics, World
The US Army is leaving Iraq at the end of the year or maybe not depending on how the negotiations on thousands of trainers works out. Why remain in Iraq at all? According to the State Department it’s to maintain “situational awareness around the country, manage political crises in potential hotspots such as Kirkuk, and provide [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized, War
The Obama Administration is clearly developing a taste for executing American citizens in an extrajudicial fashion and hardly a peep is coming out of the mainstream media. Abdulrahman al-Awlaki the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, himself executed by drone on September 30th, was killed in a drone strike in Yemen on October 14th, reportedly while having [...]
Filed under: Courts, Foreign policy, Terrorism
The National Security Council is currently meeting with Vice President Joe Biden present to consider taking dramatic steps against Iran following the discovery that Quds, the covert operations arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, was attempting to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador in the U.S. Biden is on record as saying that “all options” are on the table. [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War
The Palestinian bid to obtain recognition of statehood by the United Nations has clearly irked some power players in Washington. The United States has already made plain its intention to veto the application in the Security Council but is, at the moment, more concerned with delaying the vote for as long as possible, possibly in the [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
This might be a bit disappointing for those who believe that national Republicans are being torn between the warmongering neoconservative influence of old, and today’s “isolationist inclinations” of the post-war/post-financial collapse Tea Party landscape. Here is a list of presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s foreign policy and national security advisors, as reported by Mike Allen at [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics
I am astonished that some otherwise sane and reasonable people cannot see the incredible danger to all Americans resulting from President Obama’s without-due-process execution of a fellow citizen by drone. I recommend that any remaining agnostics out there read this excellent article by Paul Craig Roberts and more particularly view the four minute YouTube that is embedded [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, War