All Backchannels
America's deadliest soldier or stolen valor?Sgt. Dillard Johnson's new memoir claims he killed 2,746聽insurgents in Iraq. Some who served with him express doubts.
The US demands Russia give up Snowden: Thanks, says Putin.Every time the US 'demands' something from another country without considering the other parties' interests and motivations, it weakens itself. Vladimir Putin has been pointing this out.
Snowden says he doesn't want NSA leaks to be about him. Really?'I want it to be about what the US government is doing,' said NSA leaker Edward Snowden. But if that were true, we probably wouldn't even know his name.聽
So long Fayyadism, So long Palestinian Authority?With a democratic mandate that expired six years ago and an aging old guard around President Mahmoud Abbas, new Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah's attempted resignation is just the latest trouble.
What's Obama's strategy for Syria?Go figure.
As Karzai blusters over Taliban, more trouble in AfghanistanAfghan President Hamid Karzai suspended talks with the US over a new Status of Forces Agreement, furious that the US is trying to join peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar.
Is Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood backing a jihad in Syria?The Sunni Islamist movement behind Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has called for a mass rally in support of Syria's rebellion. Sectarian tensions over the war there are growing hotter.
Wayne White on arming Syria's rebelsA veteran intelligence analyst on Obama's decision.
Has a 'red line' in Syria been crossed?And so what if it has?
Wusses, US foreign policy, and the horrific death toll in SyriaFormer President Bill Clinton suggested President Obama was being a 'wuss' over intervention in Syria as the UN reported the death toll has reached 93,000.
Is Iran winning in Syria?An Iran-backed victory for the Syrian regime may give Iran more regional influence, but it could lose its claim to being a leader of resistance.
News flash: The NSA is spying on ChinaEdward Snowden says the US spies on China and Hong Kong. A surprise to no one. That's practically the whole point of funding spy agencies.
ACLU files suit over NSA surveillance, citing 'chilling effect'The American Civil Liberties Union charges that secret warrants allowing the National Security Agency to collect mass data on phone usage violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution.
Americans say they are pretty comfortable with expanded government surveillanceThe new polling from Pew suggests that the latest leaks aren't likely to change policy.
Booz Allen Hamilton, federal contractorHow do you keep secrets when Booz Allen, just one of many intelligence contractors, has more than 12,000 employees with top secret access?
Will NSA leaks wake us from our techno-utopian dream?A vast surveillance state is being made possible by the technologies that we were told would liberate us.
Is the price of 'security' worth it?Or, how much terrorism is there, really?
NSA's data flood, through the PRISM of US interests and freedomDo revelations about the US government snooping on citizens' telephone and Internet records make it harder for the government to advocate for Internet freedom around the world?
IMF admits it got Greece wrong. What does it get right?Not much.
Report confirms high toll from Afghan insider attacks in 2012The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction points to the dangers posed to foreign troops from their Afghan counterparts.
