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How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.

In our new landscape of imperial defeat, it’s remarkable how consistently things that are officially going so well are actually going so badly.

When it comes to subjecting resource-rich, developing countries to American military power, President Obama is in the process of outdoing his predecessor.

Is the Obama national security team a pilotless drone?

Janet Malcolm can be brutal in her judgments, but it is the casual brutality of keen observation.

How did he dupe us all? Americans love to be inspired by simple solutions to complicated problems—especially when the solutions are cheap and the problems are far away.

With cries for “democracy” and “freedom” sweeping Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere, the Bush-era’s now-infamous “democracy agenda” is nowhere in sight.

Drug users deserve the chance to prevent HIV, too.

The military may not be winning the Afghan War, but it is winning the Afghan publishing wars at home, with a striking percentage of books on the war Pentagon-influenced or simply Pentagon-produced.

China is slowly winning control of the Greater Middle East and Central Asia's energy supplies with deals, strategy and lots of pipe.