Last week President Obama admitted that his administration has not worked out a strategy on how to deal with the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a dominant force in the Middle East. However, as ISIS continues its march through Syria and...
Hoaxes, Hype, and Hysteria
While Americans were barbecuing over the Labor Day weekend, the Usual Suspects were busy cooking up new wars, from Iraq to Ukraine. While this is nothing new – after all, evil never sleeps – one thing I did notice: the stunning lack of imagination on their part. It...
Why Kazakhstan Dismantled Its Nuclear Arsenal
Last week (August 29) was fifth observance of the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. One of the first decrees of President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, upon the country gaining independence in 1991, was the historic decision to close, on Aug. 29 the same...
95 Killed across Iraq As Security Forces Reach Turkmen Town
At least 95 people were killed and 25 more were wounded. Amerli was liberated with, apparently, no casualties. However, a suicide bomber killed 37 people in Ramadi as militants may have consolidated gains there. Security forces have reached Amerli, but many of the...
Fight for Turkmen Town Unfolding As 200 Are Killed across Iraq
A Free Society Must Give Up Empire
If Americans want a free society at home, then they must convince the U.S. government to give up its global empire. The militarized police recently on display in Ferguson was no freak coincidence: Antiwar activists and other civil libertarians have been warning for...
Bitcoin Is the Solution to the Military Industrial Complex
The past 100 years has seen the advent and spread of the disease with the highest death count of all time: the military industrial complex. The most evil, murderous, relentless force the world has ever seen is the partnership between defense contractors, weapons...
The War for Nothing
After 50 days, the war is over. Hallelujah. On the Israeli side: 71 dead, among them 66 soldiers, 1 child. On the Palestinian side: 2,143 dead, 577 of them children, 263 women, 102 elderly. 11,230 injured. 10,800 buildings destroyed. 8,000 partially destroyed. About...
Full Spectrum Dominance, the European Press and the Impending Demise of the EU
Last Saturday, Angela Merkel went to Kiev to pledge increased financial and political support for the coup-installed regime's war against separatist forces in the eastern and largely Russian-speaking part of Ukraine. Seldom in recent history – and that is saying a lot...