The idea that someone should be disqualified from service in the Obama administration because of involvement in extremist Bush terrorism polices seems quaint and obsolete.

As always, the US - through the very policies of aggression and militarism justified in the name of terrorism - is creating the very "terrorists" those polices are supposedly designed to combat.

If these were the actions of any other country on earth, we would be able to see them clearly for what they are: war crimes and crimes against humanity of the highest order.

Relatives of three American drone victims are suing the US government, alleging they were illegally killed in violation of international human rights law and the US Constitution.

The supposed targets of US drone attacks pose no clear and imminent threat to the United States and have neither the capacity nor the will to harm Americans other than those hunting them.

The actions of one principled young US soldier, Bradley Manning, have embarrassed and enraged the most powerful nation on earth.

The US military-industrial complex is as corrupt and rotten as any institution of America's broken democracy, says Mark Weisbrot, and more deadly than most in its consequences.

I sort of agree with the NRA when they say, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people," except I would just modify that a bit and say, "Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people."

For the children continuously killed in the Muslim world huge numbers of people, particularly in the countries responsible, remain completely untouched by the grief that is caused.

American policy and actions in the Arab world, has resulted in the deaths (i.e. murder) of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent children.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation aims to block the US government from ever again being able to attack and suffocate an independent journalistic enterprise the way it did with WikiLeaks.

America is the only country in the world perpetually at war: in 2011-2012 alone, the United States was killing people in nine different countries, from Afghanistan to Yemen.

It is a sign of the times that Liberal Hollywood has produced the ultimate hagiography of the most secretive arm of America's National Security State and bestowed it with every accolade.

Most victims of America's foreign wars are bystanders, killed in their homes, their stores, their schools, their weddings, just like those killed at home in our schools and shopping malls.

Alarmism has always been the stock in trade of power. Rulers have a vested interest in heightening threats, however implausible, egged on by their armies and arms manufacturers.

Americans would benefit from spending much less time and energy expressing outrage at anti-American sentiment, and far more time and energy trying to understand why it's so widespread.