Once is an anomaly; twice is the beginning of a pattern. Right now, we're seeing the same sequence of events for the second time in less than a decade, and it looks like the signature American way of war in our time is coming into focus. In 2003, when the Bush...
Tuesday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 17 Wounded
The Middle East No Longer Matters
As the Obama administration gears up for additional commitments to Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East, it is good to remind ourselves that in spite of the overheated rhetoric of the past few years, the region is of very little, if any, strategic value to the...
The Kid, the Pimp, and the Spineless Media
Iran Sanctions Are the Talk of the Day
If there were any doubts about what exactly U.S. President Barack Obama meant when he warned Iran of "growing consequences" during his State of the Union address last month, they seem to be dispelled by recent statements from top administration officials,...
Monday: 9 Iraqis Killed, 6 Wounded
Antiwar Reporting on the National Security State
Respected journalist Jeremy Scahill wrote an article on Feb. 4 for The Nation titled "The Expanding U.S. War in Pakistan." In his article he presented as fact several assertions about the CIA and U.S. military special operations forces. In this article I will...
Destabilizing Pakistan
Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA's "secret" battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned aerial vehicles – that is, pilotless drones – shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and...
Spies, Lies, and Fear
The Bosnian "Threat" to Empire Bosnia was in the headlines again this week. On Monday, police from both the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation raided a Wahhabi village in the north of the country. And on Tuesday, U.S. Director of National...
A Four-Letter Word
Many important struggles in Israel are calling out to people of conscience. Among others (in random order): The struggle for preserving the environment and the future of the planet. The struggle for democracy against fascist trends. The struggle for human rights and...