Category: Foreign Policy
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 […]
Tom Engelhardt: North Korea, the War on Terror and the Enemy-Industrial Complex
by Tom Engelhardt | Apr 15, 2013 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityThe communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration. Guam, Hawaii, Washington: all, it claims, are targetable. The coverage in the media has been hair-raising. The U.S. is rushing an untested missile defense system to Guam, deploying missile-interceptor ships off the South […]