US may use CIA cloak to hide Afghan presence

Afghan men walk past by US soldiers in Ghazni province on February 2, 2012 (AFP Photo / Aref Yaqubi) The Pentagon is reportedly deliberating over putting elite troops and Special Forces in Afghanistan under CIA…

US Congress passes authoritarian anti-protest law

A bill passed Monday in the US Congress and Thursday in the Senate would make it a felony—a serious criminal offense punishable by lengthy terms of incarceration—to participate in many forms of protest associated with…

The Washington Post: One state for Palestinians and Israelis

For decades the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has eluded well-intentioned peacemakers. Diplomats have talked, shaken hands, snapped photos — and returned home from summits with strikingly little to show for their efforts.  Meanwhile,…

Russia’s National Interests and Foreign Policy

On February 27, with Russia’s presidential poll already in sight, Moskovskie Novostidaily featured an international politics opinion piece by Vladimir Putin, which came as the seventh in a series of programmatic papers by the Russian…