You might've noticed that I've been off the Glenn Greenwald / Edward Snowden beat for a while. Call me crazy, but healthcare and the conga-line of lies being told about the Affordable Care Act are just a smigde more important than metadata and Australia spying on Indonesia. Wow. ...read more

By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett The controversy over Iran’s nuclear activities has at least as much to do with the future of international order as it does with nonproliferation. For this reason, all of the BRICS countries [Brazil, Russia, India, China and South ...read more

The US military is now taking Israel's increasingly belligerent rhetoric against Iran more seriously and is directly warning it not to take any action. The delicate and volatile situation puts the United State's interests in the area in jeopardy and it is now calculating that ...read more

By Paul R. Pillar: Helene Cooper and Mark Landler of the New York Times caused a stir over the weekend with a report that the United States and Iran had agreed “in principle” to bilateral negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program. Negotiations with Iran on that issue have ...read more

By Paul R. Pillar: One naturally wonders what was going through the mind of the Israeli prime minister, or of his staff or speechwriters, when deciding to include in his address to the United Nations General Assembly such an obvious invitation for satire and ridicule. And on a ...read more

Pictured above is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drawing a red line on an Iran bomb cartoon/diagram he brought to his speech at the UN. For reasons best known to himself, Netanyahu thought his audience needed a children's picture book bomb to illustrate the threat ...read more