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Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich’s next two weeks of policy statements, revealed!

Alex Pareene
After his breathtaking about-face on Libya, what will Newt Gingrich both support and not support next?
A Libyan rebel patrols the frontline of the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Monday, March 21, 2011. The international military intervention in Libya is likely to last "a while," a top French official said Monday, echoing Moammar Gadhafi's warning of a long war ahead as rebels, energized by the strikes on their opponents, said they were fighting to reclaim a city under siege from the Libyan leader's forces.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

The manipulative pro-war argument in Libya

Glenn Greenwald
Accusing war opponents of indifference to suffering is a common, and ironic, tactic used to justify wars
Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher dies

Barry Schweid
Christopher, head of State Department during Clinton's first term, succumbed to cancer Friday night
President Barack Obama makes a statement about Japan following last week's earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear concerns, Thursday, March 17, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Obama on presidential war-making powers

Glenn Greenwald
As candidate, he insisted that presidents lack the power to enter conflicts without approval. What will he do now?
An Afghan woman clad in burqa watches the view of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Insurgents killed more Afghan civilians last year than ever before and their roadside bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations were responsible for the overwhelming majority of conflict-related deaths in 2010, the United Nations said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Taking the “war” out of air war

Tom Engelhardt
What US air power is actually doing in the War on Terror

Three-minute Cliffs Notes of U.S. foreign policy

Glenn Greenwald
A former CIA operative perfectly expresses the mindset driving the U.S. government's role in the world
Shiite Bahraini youths burn tires Wednesday, March 16, 2011, near a shopping mall in Malkiya, Bahrain as they awaited government forces they anticipated would roll into their Shiite Muslim village southwest of the capital of Manama. They said they tried to get to Manama to join anti-government protesters under attack there but found all ways in to the capital closed. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain’s crackdown on demonstrations kills 5 protesters

Barbara Surk, Reem Khalifa
The American-allied government's reaction becomes increasingly violent as some citizens are shot point blank

Social networking and dissent

Patrick Smith
We grant Twitter and Facebook invaluable promotion under the pretense of being "tools of democracy." I don't get it
Thousands of anti-government protesters march Tuesday, March 15, 2011, to the Saudi embassy in Manama, Bahrain. Bahrain's king declared a three-month state of emergency Tuesday to quell a Shiite uprising, as clashes spread through the capital and surrounding villages in a showdown that drew in the region's major powers and splintered along its main sectarian faultlines. At least two Bahrainis and a Saudi soldier died, and hundreds of protesters were injured by shotgun blasts and clubs. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain military sweeps into protest camp

Barbara Surk, Reem Khalifa
At least six are dead in military raid day after state of emergency declared
President Barack Obama speaks at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo) (AP)

Various matters: Afghanistan, Libya and Manning

Glenn Greenwald
In the news: A liberal consensus arises on Obama's detention defense, while war lessons seem never to be learned
In this image made off Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Earthquake fallout: U.S. debt crisis gets a downgrade

Andrew Leonard
Catastrophe economics: World investors rush back to U.S. bonds, proving that big deficits aren't so scary after all
Flanking Uncle Sam: Charlie Sheen in "Red Dawn," left, and Tom Cruise in "Top Gun"

How the ’80s programmed us for war

David Sirota
Reagan's "morning in America" created "Red Dawn," and a Pentagon-fueled pop culture that trained the masses
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa as he arrives for a meeting at Al-Zahar Palace in Manama Saturday, March 12, 2011. Gates is meeting in Bahrain with the kingdom's top rulers, who are facing growing demands for more political freedom. (AP Photo/ Mandal Ngan, pool) (AP)

The Arab lobby

Nick Turse
How the tiny kingdom of Bahrain strong-armed the President of the United States into opposing democracy
A Bahraini anti-government protester gestures in front of riot police on an overpass near Pearl roundabout Sunday, March 13, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Saudi Arabia intervenes in Bahrain protests

Brian Murphy, Reem Khalifa
Saudi Arabia sends troops into Bahrain to quell violence amidst anti-government protests
Men chant slogans and wave the Egyptian flag during a rally to support Muslims and Christians in national unity at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian January 25 uprising, in Cairo, Egypt Friday, March 11, 2011, two days after 13 were killed and 140 wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians as the police and ruling military struggle to maintain order barely a month after a popular uprising ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) (AP)

Is Egypt the future IndoTurkeZil?

Pepe Escobar
A number of nascent democracies, both Muslim and otherwise, could provide successful templates for Arab nations
Juliette Binoche in "Certified Copy"

Juliette Binoche on her new Tuscan-seductress role

Andrew O'Hehir
The unpretentious star talks about Iran, France's head-scarf law and her wrenching performance in "Certified Copy"
Rep. Peter King, of New York's 3rd congressional district

U.S. lawmaker supporting terrorist group? Rep. Peter King isn’t the first

Marian Wang
Peter King has openly supported the IRA, but he's not the only government official to back a terrorist group
Egyptian pro-democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei, former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog agency and Egypt's reformist leader, talks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb.4, 2011. The Egyptian military guarded thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo's main square on Friday in an attempt to drive out President Hosni Mubarak after a week and half of pro-democracy demonstrations. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

ElBaradei seeks presidential office in Egypt

Sarah El Deeb
The Nobel Peace Prize winner sets conditions regarding a run for the top job in Egypt
Robert Levinson

Years after vanishing in Iran, Robert Levinson is alive

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Retired FBI agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran four years ago and was all but given up as dead
President Barack Obama speaks during a bi-partisan meeting of governors in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

“Moammar Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to lead and he must leave”

Bradley Klapper
In a press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Obama denounced the Libyan president
BP PLC's CEO Bob Dudley during a results media conference at their headquarters in London, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. BP announced Tuesday it is resuming dividend payouts for the first time since the Gulf of Mexico well disaster, despite suffering its first full-year loss since 1992, and plans to sell off almost half of its U.S. refinery business. BP said a stronger-than-expected end to 2010, in which high oil prices lifted fourth quarter profit by 30 percent, was not enough to avoid a full-year loss of $3.7 billion. It raised to $40.9 billion its estimate for the overall cost of the spill, the charge covering the cost of the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 workers in April, as well as plugging the well and cleaning up the southern U.S. coast. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) (AP)

The collapse of the old oil order

Michael T. Klare
As protesters oust Middle Eastern dictators, the age of cheap and readily available petroleum will come to an end
Anti-Gadhafi protestors Kadija Sherif, right, and Hana Benghalbon, background, take part in a demonstration at the Libyan Embassy in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) (AP)

Realistic options for ousting Gadhafi look limited

Matthew Lee, Robert Burns
Little short of U.S. military intervention seems likely to force Gadhafi from power in the short term.
CORRECTS TO REMOVE EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION FROM CAPTION FIELD Omani nationals watch smoke rise from Lulu hypermarket in Sohar, Oman, Monday Feb. 28, 2011. Omani security forces have blocked roads to Sohar, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of the capital of Muscat, after deadly clashes between pro-democracy protesters and riot police. (AP Photo) (AP)

Oman deploys army units fearing more chaos

Saeed El-nahdy
After three days of violent anti-government protests, Omani troops prepare for escalating unrest
Iraqi police arrest a protester during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. Thousands marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq on Friday, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) (AP)

U.S. silent as Iraqi regime cracks down

Justin Elliott
The U.S.-backed al-Maliki government imprisoned intellectuals and used live ammunition on protesters
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