As they say: it’s a wrap! In many ways, 2012 was a status quo year. At its end, Barack Obama is still president, and our global war continues to march in varied incarnations across the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. At home, Americans toil and play in a...
Iraq: 39 Killed, 125 Wounded Ahead of Arba’een Holiday
The War Party and the Israel Lobby Wish for War With Iran in 2013
As we begin 2013, the War Party and its ally, the Israel lobby, are pushing hard to make sure that they get their wish for the New Year, namely, a devastating war with Iran. To them, it is not enough that the illegal unilateral sanctions that the United States and its...
Predictions, 2013
Year’s end prediction columns are always problematic: my last one wasn’t all that accurate, as it turned out. I was dead wrong on the Big One — war with Iran, to which I assigned a 65 percent probability. This year, however, it looks as if the issue — like a huge,...
One Killed in Iraq Protests
Five Journalists Killed in Iraq during 2012
The Larger Question of Chuck Hagel
The Israel Lobby is hell bent on sabotaging President Barack Obama’s tentative plan to appoint former Sen. Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. And – with Obama now dithering about this selection – the Lobby and its neocon allies sense another impending victory....
Naftali Bennett: The David Duke of Israel
Naftali Bennett is the rising star of Israeli politics, and his party, Jewish Home, is projected to be the third largest in Israel: he is also an upfront racist who has made the presence of Africans in the country a major campaign issue, calling for their immediate...
A Gathering Storm
Having learned nothing from the fallout of its actions in 2011, the Atlantic Empire and the EUSSR continued to sink ever deeper into the quagmire throughout 2012. Nothing seems to penetrate their bunker mentality, and worse yet, every crisis only seems to be an excuse...