Category: Foreign Policy
Massive National Security Leaks Are Good for Us
by Chase Madar | May 1, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Legal Affairs
As a general rule, important decisions—say, for instance, deciding whether or not to invade a Middle Eastern nation—turnout better when they are well-informed. Poorly informed choices tend to end in disaster.
Consider our invasion of Iraq—a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and is by no means over, even though our troops have mostly left. That war killed 4,500 American soldiers, injured at least 32,000 at a dollar cost measured in trillions. If you measure defending our national security in blood and money, this war was more damaging to our national security than the Sept. 11 attacks themselves.
M.J. Rosenberg: Time to Admit U.S. Policies Can Cause Terrorism
by M.J. Rosenberg | Apr 24, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National Security(Men gathered to protest drone strikes in Yemen in January: Times of London) There is one change that the United States could make in response to the terrorism threat that is never discussed. That is to consider the part U.S. policies have played in creating and sustaining it. I understand that we are not supposed […]
Tom Engelhardt: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Why American Imperial War Has Come Home
by Tom Engelhardt | Apr 23, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National Security(Jeremy Scahill’s new book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, which reports on America’s covert operations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, was made into a documentary that competed at the Sundance Film Festival in January.) Editor’s note: In today’s post from TomDispatch.com, Tom Engelhardt once against connects the dots. In focusing on […]
Sebastian Rotella: Bombing Suspects Echo Home-Grown Terrorists in Madrid, London
by Sebastian Rotella | Apr 21, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National Security(Boston was locked down Friday as police searched for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: AP via CSM) As an eighth-grader in a Cambridge public school, suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was quiet, friendly, spoke good English and seemed at home in his adopted country. While hundreds of police officers pursued the 19-year-old during a nationally-televised rampage across […]
M.J. Rosenberg: Senate Tells Israel War with Iran Is OK
by M.J. Rosenberg | Apr 17, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityIt is customary for Congress to pass resolutions commending Israel on the anniversary of its founding in 1948. Once these resolutions were innocuous with references to “making the desert bloom” and “ingathering” Jewish refugees. Standard “pro-Israel” boilerplate. No more. In recent years Congress, with the Israel lobby’s eager assistance, has coupled salutations and congratulations with […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety