In my essay “The Herd Mind,” I explained how “War is the health of the State,” according to Randolph Bourne: in particular, how war causes a country to regress from a diverse civilization to a uniform herd locked in fight-or-flight mode, and easily driven by the...
In addition to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, yet another U.S. military intervention is in shambles: the US drone war against al Qaeda’s most potent regional affiliate – al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Heretofore, despite the rise of the perhaps even more...
Last week two prominent Ukrainian opposition figures were gunned down in broad daylight. They join as many as ten others who have been killed or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances just this year. These individuals have one important thing in common: they...
At least 161 were killed and 12 were wounded. Militants execute seven elders from the Abu Sakr tribe in Baiji. Fifteen militants were killed as troops advanced into the city. In Baghdad, a double bombing wounded four people in Karrada. A policeman was killed and two...
Let's get this straight: Saudi Arabia is Al Qaeda. If there was any doubt about that, the Kingdom's invasion of Yemen makes it plain as day. The Los Angeles Times reports: "A brazen territorial grab by Al Qaeda militants in Yemen – together with a $1-million bank...
This week I won a dubious distinction: a groundbreaking Supreme Court judgment has been named after me. It is an honor I would have gladly dispensed with. My name appeared at the head of a list of applicants, associations and individuals, which asked the court to...
Iraqi authorities say that most of the refinery in Baiji is now in the hands of the security forces. Fifty militants were killed. The quest to identify hundreds of remains that may belong to victims of the Camp Speicher massacre continues in Tikrit. At least 158 were...
Freshman Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) wants the United States to pick a fight with Iran. Not an all-out brawl, he says; just an itty-bitty bout along the lines of 1998’s Operation Desert Fox, in which US aircraft carried out four days of airstrikes on Iraq. Setting...
