War Party Is Ready for 2016
Walter B. Jones is seventy-two years old, but the feisty Republican congressman representing North Carolina's third congressional district has no plans to retire. Asked by Roll Call if he's going to be running again, he answered "Absolutely!" and said...
The Real American Exceptionalism
Originally posted at TomDispatch. My drone is yours, compadre! Or so Washington has now decided. The latest promise of good times in the arms trade comes from an administration that has pioneered a robotic assassination regime organized out of the White House (though...
Series of Bombs Torment Baghdad; 197 Killed across Iraq
The President’s Excessive War Power
Barack Obama, after six months of fighting against the brutal group ISIS, has finally decided to ask for congressional approval of his war. He, like the Bushes before him, maintained that he already had the authority to go to war but only asked for Congress’s...
Mandatory Military Service for Congress
If it seems like only months ago that America’s warmongers were claiming there would be no need for US boots on the ground in the fight against the Islamic State (IS), that’s because it was. When the politicians initially decided to promote IS to the position of...
New Zealand Prepares Troop Deployment; 68 Killed in Iraq
Interventionism Kills: Post-Coup Ukraine One Year Later
It was one year ago last weekend that a violent coup overthrew the legally elected government of Ukraine. That coup was not only supported by the US and EU governments – much of it was actually planned by them. Looking back at the events that led to the overthrow...
Bibi Netanyahu, Ingrate
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tanking in the polls, and the election fast approaching, he and his right-wing Likud party are taking desperate measures to shore up their flagging support. Their campaign is imperiled by Bibi's underhanded tactics in...
How US Diplomatic Strategy Gave Netanyahu Leverage
The latest public spat between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government centers on Israeli leaks of details of the U.S. negotiating position in the Iran nuclear talks and the U.S. consequently reducing its consultation with Israel on the talks. Washington...