Originally posted at TomDispatch. The headline – “Bride and Boom!” – was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a half. Of course, you have to imagine that smirk line in giant black letters with a monstrous exclamation...
And Now This Filthy Flood
GAZA CITY, Dec. 20 2013 (IPS) – Wearing tattered shoes and hopping between dirty puddles, 14-year-old Sabeh manages to find his way to the market at the Al Shati refugee camp, one of Gaza’s most heavily populated and poor areas. He asks a man selling socks if he...
Iraqi Market Bombed; 42 Killed, 41 Wounded
Why Neo-Isolationism Is Soaring
"Neo-isolationism is the direct product of foolish globalism. ... Compared to people who thought they could run the universe, or at least the globe, I am neo-isolationist and proud of it." Those are not the words of an old America Firster, but the declaration of that...
Pilgrims Attacked Again in Iraq; 73 Killed, 121 Wounded
Almost Orwellian
“Almost Orwellian” – that’s the description a federal judge gave earlier this week to the massive spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on virtually all 380 million cellphones in the United States. In the first meaningful and jurisdictionally grounded judicial...
Some Might Call It Treason
There is a major flaw in the United States Constitution. The Founders understood that partisan politics would inevitably result in bickering along party lines that would lead to charges that political opponents were betraying the country so they deliberately made it...
Pakistani and Saudi Pilgrims Among 30 Killed, 53 Wounded Across Iraq
Stay Out of Petty Island Disputes in East Asia
One of the most dangerous international disputes that the United States could get dragged into has little importance to U.S. security – the disputes nations have over small islands (some really rocks rising out of the sea) in East Asia. Although any war over these...
Boycott Israel
Dear Readers, Aside from the holiday, I've got some personal business to take care of so there will be no Friday column, unfortunately. But I'll be back on Monday, so please watch this space. My regular readers may recall one of my more controversial columns, wherein...