White House Schizophrenia – Kerry: ‘Assad Can Stay’; Obama: ‘Assad Must Go’
Just three days ago, emerging from Moscow meetings with Russian foreign minister Lavrov and president Putin, US Secretary of State John Kerry signaled a major shift in US foreign policy toward Syria. "The United States and our partners are not seeking so-called regime...
A Call for Proof on Syria-Sarin Attack
MEMORANDUM FOR: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Sarin Attack at Ghouta on Aug. 21, 2013 In a Memorandum of Oct. 1, 2013, we asked each of you to make...
Troops Enter Central Ramadi; 159 Killed in Iraq
Trump’s Ban on Muslims Is Unconstitutional and Obscures Real Solution
Legal scholars don't agree on whether Donald Trump's demagogic proposal to temporarily ban any of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims from entering the United States would be constitutional. That disagreement says more about the sorry state of the constitutional law...
War Is Realizing the Israelizing of the World
As US-driven wars plummet the Muslim world ever deeper into jihadi-ridden failed state chaos, events seem to be careening toward a tipping point. Eventually, the region will become so profuse a font of terrorists and refugees, that Western popular resistance to “boots...
114 Killed across Iraq on Eve of Ramadi Battle
The Logic of the Police State
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Sometime in late November, after the Paris terror attacks but before the one in San Bernardino, I was walking to New York’s Grand Central Station to catch the subway home. In front of one of its main entrances, the police had set up...
Making a Mess of Things
Ever since Turkey's downing of a Russian military plane in November, a number of Republican presidential hopefuls have been trying to outdo each other with who would shoot down more of Putin's jets if elected president. The latest GOP debate is a case in point. When...
A Lonely Lawyer
By now every Israeli has seen the TV clip several times – showing a 14-year old Arab girl being shot dead near the central market of Jewish Jerusalem. The story is well known: two sisters, 14 and 16 years old, have decided to attack Israelis. The clip, taken by...
