If President Obama were speaking solely for U.S. national interests, he would offer a stern rebuke, not gentle reassurance, to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States during a Camp David summit, but domestic politics and Israeli pressure will constrain any…
Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration
Obama Panders to Gulf State Sheiks
Tom Brady and Theoretical Crime
Constitution, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, Obama Administration, Secrecy, The Bush-43 Administration
Punishing Another Whistleblower
Exclusive: Just weeks after ex-CIA Director David Petraeus got a no-jail-time wrist-slap for divulging secrets to his biographer/lover, ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling got 42 months in prison for allegedly alerting a U.S. journalist to a dubious covert op, a double standard of justice,…
Foreign Policy, Intelligence, Lost History, Obama Administration, October Surprise, Politics, Secrecy
Failing to Hide Israel-Iran-Iraq Secrets
Saddam’s Green Light
Two Approaches toward Nationalism
Enforcing the Ukraine ‘Group Think’
The Reasons for Urban Rioting
Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Obama Administration, Politics, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration
America as Dangerous Flailing Beast
Why Write about NFL’s ‘Deflategate’
Obama’s Petulant WWII Snub of Russia
Saudi Cash Wins France’s Favor
Drone Deaths v. Broken Windows
The Danger of Resurgent Anti-Semitism
Amnesty International’s Palestine Sell-out
Holes in NFL’s ‘Deflategate’ Report
Entangled in Sunni-Shiite Wars
Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Lost History, Media, Obama Administration, Right Wing, The Bush-43 Administration
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.