ACLU attorney Hina Shamsi came under fire from Sen. Lindsey Graham, while the chair of a Yemeni group offered graphic testimony of airstrikes’ human costs.
Harrowing Drone-Strike Testimony at US Senate
Category: Obama Administration
Throwing a Shoe at the Illegal US War on Iraq
Vijay Prashad explains why a group of international media organizations reject and denounce the U.S. government’s attack on Julian Assange and journalism.
Chris Hedges: PEN America Uncoils Rope to Get Assange
Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class.
How Not to Explain the Ukraine Crisis
The PBS NewsHour invited on just about the worst person in the U.S. government to help Americans understand the crisis in Ukraine, writes Mike Madden.
The Great ‘What if?’ for Julian Assange
What if Julian Assange had walked out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2013? asks Joe Lauria.
The US-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies say Americans should hope that the CIA director’s recent visit to Moscow helped Washington understand the stakes.
Murder By Any Other Name
Scott Ritter explains how the murder of Zemari Ahmadi and nine family members by a U.S. drone attack in August was whitewashed by the Pentagon.
The Tough-Guy, Hard-Ball, Syndrome
It’s a matter of substance as much as form, writes Michael Brenner. And it helps explain the self-imposed lobotomy of the U.S. foreign policy establishment in recent years.
CIA Plan to Poison Assange Wasn’t Needed
Behind Obama’s Risky Shift on Taiwan
Richard C. Bush has helped preserve peace between Beijing and Taipei. But as Gareth Porter reports, he changed his position.