Syria, Sarin, and Subterfuge: They Made It All Up
Dear Readers: I'm taking a much-needed break today, getting some necessary research done. I'll be back on Friday. In the meantime, check out my recent piece for The American Conservative, "JFK, Warmonger."The suspicion that the sarin gas attack supposedly launched by...
Baghdad Takes the Brunt of Attacks That Leave 61 Dead, 214 Wounded
Shooting Spree Targets Baghdad Liquor Stores; 21 Killed, 36 Wounded Across Iraq
Free Expression Another Casualty of Sanctions
Aliakbar Salehi is a former member of the Iranian parliament and an Internet freedom and human rights advocate now living in Washington, DC. In 2006, he was arrested and jailed by the Iranian government for urging human rights reforms. But the authorities are not the...
Journalist Assassinated in Kurdistan; 15 Killed, 33 Wounded Across Iraq
In a rare attack for Kurdistan, a journalist was assassinated at his home in Kalar. His mother witnessed the shooting. In Baghdad, an evening bombing left two dead and six wounded in the Ghazaliya district. Another blast then killed three people and wounded eight more...
How the CIA Bungled the War on Terror
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Call it the Jason Bourne strategy. Think of it as the CIA’s plunge into Hollywood – or into the absurd. As recent revelations have made clear, that Agency’s moves couldn’t be have been more far-fetched or more...
A President Who Should ‘Live In Infamy’
Washington lies: how many times must Americans rediscover this home truth? The revelations provided to us by Edward Snowden are just the latest in a long series of whistleblower acts of bravery that have exposed the crimes of our Wise Leaders. From "Deep...
Shootings and Bombings Leave 14 Dead, 7 Wounded
Palestinians Lose Again
Though the President of the United States is responsible for the management of the nation’s foreign policy he hardly has a free hand. Congress has increasingly been playing a role utilizing its power to legislate and also its control over the federal budget while...