Lucy Steigerwald discusses U.S. nuclear policy. Stephen Kinzer discusses the danger of American primacy. Khaled Diab discusses Israel’s war on peaceful activism. Uri Avnery discusses Abbas and Israel-Palestine. Nadia Naser-Najjab discusses Shimon Peres. Radley Balko discusses police brutality. Karen J. Greenberg discusses what actually keeps us safe. Ivan Eland discusses how the first debate shows…

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner. 2007. Doubleday. For those interested in learning about the blunders, deceptions, crimes and disasters of the Central Intelligence Agency, Tim Weiner’s 2007 book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA is an excellent place to start. The book presents a highly critical history of…

Patrick Cockburn discusses the bloody history of Baghdad. Kent Paterson discusses the challenging of a militarized police state. Medea Benjamin discusses the broken promises of Obama. Martha Rosenberg interviews Michael Arria. Jeffrey St. Clair discusses the recently passed away, Gabriel Kolko. Justin Raimondo discusses how a CIA backed general recently launched a coup in Libya….

This piece by Lorenzo Morales at La Silla Vacía shows, with concise and beautiful prose, the process through which the FARC impose themselves on local peoples in Colombia, becoming the de facto rulers of an incipient state. Morales tells us about life in Araracuara, a small, isolated town within the Caquetá Department, deep within the…