The outrage of Baltimore residents after the fatal police abuse of Freddie Gray spilled over into ugly rioting, drawing media condemnation and public disapproval. But a different attitude prevails toward U.S. drone assassinations around the world despite many civilian deaths, a contradiction…
Category: Obama Administration
The Danger of Resurgent Anti-Semitism
Amnesty International’s Palestine Sell-out
Holes in NFL’s ‘Deflategate’ Report
Entangled in Sunni-Shiite Wars
Gifting Russia ‘Free-Market’ Extremism
Exclusive: Official Washington’s Putin-bashing knows no bounds as the Russian president’s understandable complaints about U.S. triumphalism and NATO expansion, after the Soviet collapse in the 1990s, are dismissed as signs of his “paranoia” and “revisionism,” writes Robert Parry.
US Media Shields Saudi War on Yemen
The War over the Vietnam War
Papering Over Extra-Judicial Killings
The Obama administration, like its predecessor, holds that the “exceptional” U.S. has the right to enter other countries to kill “terrorists,” but it would never tolerate, say, Cuba targeting CIA-trained terrorists harbored in Miami, one of many double standards posing as…