August 31 marks what President Obama has heralded as the end of our combat mission in Iraq. But as the last of U.S. combat troops leave, they’ll be replaced by as many as 7,000 private contractors charged with guarding...
The sinking earlier this year of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship, has exacerbated already tense relations between North and South Korea, played a role in the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama,...
This month, peace activists and world leaders gather in New York City to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, now in its 40th year. Aimed at protecting countries without nuclear weapons from those which have...
The Japanese island of Okinawa hosts some three dozen American military bases. Under a 2006 agreement between the Bush administration and the previous Japanese government, the largest of them is scheduled to close as...
While Congress debates renewed aid to the Indonesian armed forces, an elite military unit was recently implicated in a series of assassinations of civilian activists in 2009. Investigative journalist Allan Nairn broke...
Obama has deployed almost 100,000 troops to Afghanistan. The Taliban is again on the rise. Civilian and military deaths are doubling and tripling. So called Afghanistan “experts” are on the news 24/7. But do we know...
On the eve of President Obama's trip to Indonesia, Papuan activists are drawing international attention to their demands for autonomy. Jim Della-Giacoma provides us with context for the recent upsurge in violence...
Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist, has been described alternately as one of the most wanted women connected to al-Qaeda and as an innocent victim of the US-led regime of “enforced disappearances.” After ten...
