Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on a recent trip to China tried to downplay America's militarism in Asia-Pacific and convince the Chinese that it is not an attempt to contain China's rise. "Our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region is not an attempt to contain China....
Italy's highest court on Wednesday upheld guilty verdicts against 23 Americans for the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian Muslim cleric while he was in Milan, in the first criminal convictions for the US's post-9/11 "extraordinary rendition" program. Following the...
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