International Political Will

Just after seven o’clock on a Wednesday morning in early December 2007, the ugliness of the Taliban insurgency struck again in the heart of Afghanistan’s capital city. A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a mini-bus full of people commuting from their Kabul neighborhood of Chilsitoon, killing 13. As with most terrorist acts, the [...]

Claims are often made that the United States supports and funds autocratic despots in countries around the world, thwarting democracy when it doesn’t fit America’s interests. Despite an abundance of information, these links between dictators and the U.S. government are often tenuous and difficult to prove.
This gives the right-wing many excuses and arguments to [...]

The strings of America’s mainstream media are pulled so tight by the neo-conservative administration, I doubt they even realize when they regurgitate a talking point in the guise of “news.”

The Surge worked.
The Sunni Awakening.

Both of these Orwellian mantras are heard daily on every news outlet. Yet they’re no more than neo-con talking points distributed through [...]