Current Affairs

For years the US has been sending Predator drones — unnmanned bombers — into remote areas of Pakistan, on the hunt for Taliban and al Qaeda. Even though these raids have been [...]

The Washington Post is reporting today on two classified cables from the US Ambassador to Afghanistan to Washington, expressing deep concerns about a possible escalation of troops. The cables [...]

Today is Blog Action Day for climate change, so I’m posting our piece on how international cooperation must be a central element of America’s energy policy. — In today’s [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7bHkH779qg] President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and [...]

On October 7, 2001, America went to war with Afghanistan in response to the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. Operation Enduring Freedom began with air strikes centered on the capital of [...]

Today marks a first step toward fixing the diplomatic vacuum between Iran and America.  Talks are taking place in the isolated Villa Le Saugy between Iran, the members of the UN Security Council, [...]

Since the leaking of the McCrystal memo and the President’s professed skepticism of certain aspects of Afghanistan policy, the public has witnessed a media blitz from both sides of the [...]

The US-drafted UN Resolution 1887 on non-proliferation and disarmament passed unanimously today at the Security Council meeting chaired by President Obama. In attendance were the heads-of-state [...]

I’m looking forward to major speeches and lots of news on nuclear weapons this week with both President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton at the U.N. Check out the schedule: 9/23: [...]

In anticipation of how the Obama administration will define success and metrics of progress in Afghanistan, Tom Englehardt of the Nation provided an invaluable collection of statistics (with [...]