Originally posted at TomDispatch. In light of recent history, perhaps it’s time to update that classic U.S. Army recruitment campaign slogan from "be all that you can be" to "build all that you can build." Consider it an irony that, in an era when...
Nixon’s Vindication
Forty years ago many Americans celebrated the demise of the imperial presidency with the resignation of Richard Nixon. Today it is clear they celebrated too soon. Nixon’s view of presidential powers, summed up in his infamous statement that, “when the...
246 Killed in Iraq; Anbar’s Governer Seriously Hurt in Mortar Attack
Civilians Killed in Airstrikes in Iraq; 72 Killed, 27 Wounded
NATO – An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
In the past dozen years, the armed forces of NATO countries, whether operating under the NATO banner or in related ad-hoc coalitions, have killed many hundreds of thousands of people. Of those hundreds of thousands of people, only a few hundred at most ever had any...
Of Motes and Beams
Events of the past two weeks have demonstrated once again that the Atlantic Empire regards humanity as nothing more than pieces on the game board. Wars in the Ukraine, Iraq and Syria, the ongoing meltdown of "liberated" Libya, the barbarous actions of ISIS –...
ISIS Releases Some Kidnapping Victims; 52 Killed Across Iraq
Anti-Interventionism and Its Discontents
The ISIS crisis has given the War Party a new lease on life – or so they want us to believe. It seems like only yesterday that they were in the doldrums, and with good reason: their Syrian adventure was aborted after a long propaganda buildup – thanks to a cry of...
Winners and Losers in Gaza: On Victory and False Victory
In the rush to analyze the outcome of Israel’s 51-day war in Gaza, dubbed Operation Protective Edge, some may have neglected an important factor: this was not a war by traditional definitions of warfare, thus the conventional analyses of victory and defeat is simply...
Reevaluating World War II Is Good for You
September 1 was the 75th anniversary of the long-considered start of World War II. The Nazis and the Soviets put aside their griping long enough to hungrily divide and conquer Poland, and the European theater proceeded from there. The potential for smaller conflicts...