Tuesday on Fox Radio News' “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke with Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris about President Obama asking Congress for the authorization for the use of military force to take on ISIS.Garris has urged citizens to call their representatives to...
Walking Back the American Twenty-First Century?
Originally posted at TomDispatch. I never fail to be amazed – and that’s undoubtedly my failing. I mean, if you retain a capacity for wonder you can still be awed by a sunset, but should you really be shocked that the sun is once again sinking in the West?...
Happy Kosovo Independence Day?
Kosovars are celebrating the seventh anniversary of Kosovo's independence – by leaving in record numbers. By some estimates as many as 100,000 have fled the country in the past few months. Germany is dispatching policemen to the Hungary-Serbia border to stem the...
167 Killed Across Iraq; Concerns over 10,000 Women Trafficked into Slavery
America Needs a More Restrained National Security Strategy
As the American cable news entertainment channels focus on the artificial "American Sniper" controversy, the Obama administration’s issuance of its second and final national security strategy (the last one was done in 2010) was buried deep in the back pages...
How Many More Wars?
Last week President Obama sent Congress legislation to authorize him to use force against ISIS “and associated persons and forces” anywhere in the world for the next three years. This is a blank check for the president to start as many new wars as he wishes,...
Hezbollah Admits To Fighting in Iraq; 62 Killed
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that Iraq is preparing to retake Mosul. He gave no details beyond that it would take several months. This announcement comes despite the near collapse of military forces in Anbar this week. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah...
Must Europe Be An American Colony?
Francis Fukuyama's famous essay "The End of History?" contains a phrase that aptly describes the common conception of Europe today: positing that the ideological battle for liberal democracy has already been won, Fukuyama describes what he calls the...
Drone Strikes and the Sanitization of Violence
After a lull of some two months – a break punctuated by the toppling of Yemen’s government – the US drone campaign in Yemen has resumed. The pattern that has emerged is distressingly familiar. While the US government can claim the death of radical...
Who Is the Ruler of Israel?
Who Is the Ruler of Israel? Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, of course. Wrong The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world's tenth richest person, worth 37.2 billion dollars at the latest count. But who...